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THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week THE BIG ISSUE I F THIS campaign was ever restrained and...
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The Case of Jean Genet The harshest terms which are applied to Genet he uses as the principal themes of his own work by WALLACE FOWLIE T HE BOOKS OF M. Jean Genet are no longer clandestine...
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In Saint Genet, Sartre demonstrates that he has no respect for theology, and that he scorns the attitude of those respectable citizens who allowed Genet to be condemned in the police courts. It is a...
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most beautiful thing that possibly could be proposed to us—how impatient I am! I believe in life after death and in Paradise. I am spiritually inclined and will always remain so. I have always had...
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TO SEE CLEARLY Poetry of Contact by SAMUEL HAZO I N Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, Jacques Maritain has written that "it is difficult for a modern poet not to be a child of modern man." If...
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DAICHES ON ENGLISH LITERATURE Why Literary History? by WILLIAM ESTY D AVID DAICHES—a Scottish Jewish scholar who has taught in American universities, a frequent contributor to American literary...
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critic arguing, almost line by line, with another literary critic's writings on a third man's plays! Yet Empson is fresh, instructive, stimulating; we learn; Mr. Daiches' one-shot judgments, however...
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THE SCREEN THE TWENTY-FOURTH MILLION I T'S NOT every month, thank goodness, in which our screens are blasted by two movies costing twelve million dollars each. Besides their excessive length (both...
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After a series of hand-to-hand battles and fisticuffs and minor scuffles, the big slaughter when it comes is so long and drawn out that it loses effect instead of gaining the intended dramatic...
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BOOKS A Distinguished Image of Precarious Life RABBIT, RUN. By John Updike. Knopf. $4. By RICHARD GILMAN T REMEMBER how surprised I I was when I discovered, after having written a highly...
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1960
Vol. 073 Issue 002 (October 7 1960)
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