THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week CHANCES OF NUCLEAR CONTROL F ROM ALL ACCOUNTS, the advances...
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The Case for Suburbia It must be remembered that suburbia never pretended to redeem man completely from urban and technological influences by NElL P. HURLEY I T WAS ONLY a few years back that...
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of the old fabric of our society and possibly the generator of illusion. Lionel Trilling in The Liberal Imagination has observed that "after a certain point quantity of money does indeed change...
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REPORT FROM VIENNA Communist Youth Festival by MICHAEL HARRINGTON A T FIRST GLANCE, the Seventh World Youth Festival for Peace and Friendship in Vienna during late July and August looked like...
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standpoint of its support for nationalist movements. They usually argued the "two camp" theory of the late Stalin period rather than the more sophisticated line of "peaceful co-existence." And...
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"A DIFFICULT AUTHOR" The Place of Pascal by MARTIN TURNELL p ASCAL is a difficult author because his work invites wildly differing personal interpretations. He was, moreover, a passionate,...
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An Exchange of Views "Science and the Church" Louisville, Ky. T O THE EDITORS: Professor Her~eld missed an opportunity of placing the Church s relation to science in a truer light. His article...
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THE SCREEN SUMMER ROUNDUP H ERE'S AN end-of-summer sale with brief comments on several of the current films. As might be expected during the vacation season, films for young folk and adults...
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humor and romantic touches are definitely not for the children. But the film is fast and racy and funny and exciting and, needless to say, entertaining adult fare. A Hole in the Head is an...
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RECORDS Opera- Mostly Modern F RANCIS POULENC'S "Dialogues des Carmrlites" (Angel) may be the greatest opera of our time. Certainly it is the finest thing the composer has done and is in...
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