THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week A JOINT TASK I N THE PAST fifteen years the nations of the world...
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The U. S. and the U. S. S. R. Profile of Power A meaningful evaluation of Soviet strength must be related to that of the Western world by JOSEF KORBEL T O READ the contradictory pronouncements...
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The impact of the angry young men is finally felt in an English movie A Film in Context by MARYVONNE BUTCHER T HE BOOKS ONE reads when one is young seem, in an especial way, to yield a store...
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shire as the rest; but she gives so breathtaking a performance that I cannot now see Alice with any other face, body or voice. We measure Joe through Alice's eyes; it is she who tries to make...
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HERE AND THERE TWO' VIEWS OF AMERICA T HE APPEARANCE of Richard Rovere's book Senator Joe McCarthy will inevitably open up some barely healed wounds. Though the dizzy days when the late Senator...
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THE SCREEN BLOCK THAT CLICHE W ATCHING "The Horse Soldiers," one has a feeling of having seen all this before. It is 1863. Grant is stymied at Vicksburg--"With less men and less resources, the...
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Arabic, Aramaic---is known as the "Wav conversive" or "way consecutive." Way is the letter U,--also standing for V and W. It means "and" when placed in front of a verb and "changes its tense"...
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