TH! Commonweal
A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week VICTORY FOR DE GAULLE A FEW days ago it seemed that the...
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Latin American Complaints
Our friends seem to reason that those who helped bring rain must also share blame for the drought by C. K. YEARLEY, JR. T HE DAILY headlines continue to dramatize...
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overdone sermons on self-help. Recognition of these things is devoutly to be wished. For our part, however, it would be unreasonable to expect very much reason to prevail, particularly when times...
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pendable, and his solid core of Miners was impervious to the act's harassments, whether he complied or not. Here, as virtually always, he was the trade unionist. As Lewis bows out he leaves behind...
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HERE AND THERE LEAVE IT TO THE EXPERTS? L AST WEEK I wrote about the difficulties the newspaperman faces in trying to report on the frightful complexities of social, cultural, scien- tific and...
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THE SCREEN
OUR MEN IN SATIRE G OOD satirical movies are few and far between, so the sudden appearance of three of them on our screens is all the more welcome. Although made in different...
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After an introduction in which he breaks off with his mistress of last summer, the husband boards the train for Copenhagen hoping to win back his wife who is on the same train on her way to join her...
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DEATH OF A WRITER
Albert Camus: 1913-1960
by WALLACE FOWLIE T HE DEATH of an important writer in France always attracts an unusual amount of attention in the newspapers and weekIies....
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BOOKS Virtues, Failures and Triumphs of an American Writer ADVERTISEMENTS FOR MYSELF. By Norman Mailer. Putnam. $5. By JAMES FINN "~TORMAN MAILER has accu-J_'l~ rately named his latest...
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ART r O WRITE verses is dis.L honest; to speak diffierently from ordinary people is to pose as an aristocrat." Although this was one of his typically bumptious statements, Gustave Courbet...
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