THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week POLITICS AND THE BUDGET NO SOONER was President Eisenhower's 1960...
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Thirty-Fifth Anniversary Year The Future of The Commonweal IT IS INESCAPABLE that the American journal of opinion occupies a less prominent place on the contemporary landscape than it...
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Help for the President He cannot do his job alone. Nevertheless, a Presidential staff poses its own problem and suffers from its own inherent limitations by C. K. YEARLEY, JR. JUST OVER twenty...
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NASSER'S FELLAH IN Prisoners of the Nile by EDWARD WAKIN EGYPTIANS say that the rich eat ful, a national dish of stewed beans, in the morning; the poor eat it for lunch; and the animals eat it...
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AMERICAN TRAGEDY The Meaning of Racism by GEORGE H. DUNNE IN 1896 Mr. Justice Harlan, dissenting from the majority opinion in the unfortunate Plessy v. Ferguson case, struck a prophetic...
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HERE AND THERE QUESTIONS, ANSWERS ON three Sundays in January, Father Walter J. Ong, S.J. and I carried on a question-andanswer dialogue over the N.B.C. Catholic Hour. Our general topic was...
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THE STAGE LIFE AND THE DREAM IT IS curious that Chekhov in his early study "Ivanov," and Mr. S. N. Behrman, in his account of life's disproportion to the dream, "The Cold Wind and the Warm",...
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THE SCREEN NO BANG, NO WHIMPER THIS WEEK brings several tries, all of which are scaled to adult audiences and have various assets, but none of which quite makes the grade. Producers Martin...
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BOOKS A Last Assertion of Personal Being THE POORHOUSE FAIR. By John Updike. Knopf. $3.50. By RICHARD GILMAN WE HAVE with us, to be sure, the uprising in San Francisco, but the...
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