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THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week SHAPE. OF THE PRESIDENCY T HE NATION will very shortly learn...
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Gabriel Marcel's Way In his own way, speaking in his own tone, he communicates to us the perennial philosophic quest for contact with reality by SEYMOUR CAIN G ABRIEL MARCEL has doggedly and...
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WORDS FOR SALE Literary Ghosts by JOHN P. SISK m ‘ EN," SAYS IAGO, "should be what they seem," and it is because so many of us — passionately agree with him that the ghost writer arouses in us...
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TRADITION OF SURPRISING EXCELLENCE The Light Touch by BETTE RICHART I N THE SEVENTEENTH century, an English clergyman named Robert Herrick perfected the light touch in poetry; it is doubtful that...
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THE SCREEN "YOU'LL COME A-WALTZING WITH ME" S ELDOM does a movie capture the true spirit of family so well as "The Sundowners" has. This is not just a togetherness sort of thing, although goodness...
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THE STAGE THE SENSE OF POWER A GLIB AND witless blunder had me assuming, two weeks last, the prophetic stance—clearly, it would seem, an uncongenial posture: not for me the utterance sibylline—and...
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THE POEM From the ripe silence it exploded silently. When the bright debris subsided it was there. Invisible, inaudible; only the inky shapes betrayed it. Betrayed, is the word. Thence it moved...
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CRITICS' CHOICES FOR CHRISTMAS BOOKS JAMES FINN N IGHT. By Elie Wiesel. Introduction by Francois Mauriac. Hill and Wang. $3. This spare, unblinking recollection is one of those hard facts which...
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GIFTS To Warm the Heart ... Kindle The Mind A Priest Confesses by Jose Luis Martin Descalzo A tender, profound, joyous account of ,just what it means to become 'Another Christ." By the author of...
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1920s
1960
Vol. 073 Issue 010 (December 2 1960)
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