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Commonweal
A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-SIXTHYEAR OF ,PUBLICATION week by week LEADERS AND LEADERSHIP D O PEOPLE get the kind of government...
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Television's Double Image
Must television be dependent for its life only on its utility as a seller of soap? by EDWARD T. CHASE p UBLIC DISMAY over the television quiz scan- dals may yet...
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may escape the alleged tendency to stuffiness or dic-tation of B.B.C. It is extraordinary and alarming that it took the T.V. quiz scandals to prompt the first serious con-sideration of reform for...
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A report on a typical member of Egypt's rising new middle class Portrait of Ahmad
by JAMES KRITZECK A HMAD is an Egyptian and a Moslem, twenty- nine years old. I have known him for five...
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ceives of as the dangerous threat on the part of the West--and now also of the East--to destroy his leader and, with him, any chance of greater Arab unity. So far as I can tell, Ahmad is no longer...
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a tender lover of Esther (Haya Harareet), the slave gift he freed, and as a convert to Christianity after he witnesses the Crucifixion. Although Stephen Boyd looks fine in the role of the...
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An Exchange of Views
"America's Image Abroad" T Berlin O THE EDITORS: As a long-time subscriber, I am dismayed to see you print an article so ten- dentiously pontifical as Donald Brandon's...
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Foreign Service personnel cannot use a single foreign language. As for the remarks in my article concerning the deficiencies of both the American scene and U.S. foreign policy, I and others more...
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BOOKS Strange, Romantic Novella PSYCHE 59. By Franc~oise des Ligneris. Translated by Sigrid Rock. Criterion Books. $3.50. By GEOFFREY WAGNER F OR THOSE interested in the poetic novel, this...
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malice at foibles and pretensions, and the enjoying of such happy pleasures as food and fun and family. Actually, the more weighty sequences, while moral and admir- able, simply are not as absurd;...
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