THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week MAKING STRAIGHT THE WAY I T IS DIFFICULT to realize, this Christmas,...
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Thy Neighbor As Thyself "How rarely we find an American Catholic who can identify himself with a Cuban peasant or a Japanese coal miner" by ALBERT J. NEVINS I N THE FACE of the overwhelming...
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FROM A KOMSOMOL DIARY Baptists in Russia by S. KRAINOV EDITORS' NOTE: The Communist magazine Younost recently published a few pages from the diary of a member of Komsomol (Communist Youth), with...
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HERE AND THERE EVERY CHRISTMAS T HEY have set up the big tree in Rockefeller Plaza; the skinny street-corner Santa Clauses are out again and above the low mournful sounds of New York traffic their...
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WRITER AS PROPHET H. G. Wells and War by F. H. DRINKWATER S AY WHAT you like, but H. G. Wells, in those early books before he took to reforming human society, was a truly great storyteller, a...
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TERESA OF AVILA Almighty God could make again did malice unmake the world from my turning heart, a world of use enough. When I ride under moon, it is in love in love frosty wheels...
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THE SCREEN OUT OF TUNE T HE BRITISH have a way of coming up with themes that American films seldom touch, and frequently these off-beat movies attract American audiences and even goad Hollywood...
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THE STAGE CONSPECTUS ALL THE Way Home: The Agee ceremonial of mortality is divested by the very nature of theater of its lyrical extension and keening inward pressure, but so gravely austere in...
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FOR AQUINAS AT CHRISTMAS "Dumb Ox," they called you Speaking better than they knew, For oh, there came a time When some sublime Deep inner showing of God Left you without a language, And you stood...
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Visionary Architecture ART “rri WENTIETH Century projects considered too revolutionary to build" (and a handful of similar projects of the past that proved prophetic) make up an exhibition...
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