THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week THE BATTLE RENEWED p RESIDENT Eisenhower has now delivered...
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Strangulation by Auto Our communities cannot survive at even their pres- ent qualitative level without remedial action soon by EDWARD T. CHASE T HIS COUNTRY, with all the nations of the...
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In this scheme, in the hope of preserving open rural land, the local or state government "rents" the rights to the land by paying the landowner a nominal sum on the proviso the land will not be sold...
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HERE AND THERE INTELLECTUALS CATHOLICS are often surprised, and maybe shocked would not be too strong a word, by the antagonism toward Catholicism one finds among American intellectuals. I know...
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COUNTERPOINT MR. LIPPMANN'S POWER AND PURPOSE WITH A SHARP tone, which seems new to his famous syndicated column, Walter Lippmann has recently been deploring American private luxury,...
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Brendan Behan is preoccupied with the past but no longer believes in it An Irish Success by SAM HYNES IT IS one of the truest of truisms that modern English literature has been made not by...
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fifty-eight, and the days of the heroes is over this thirty-five years past. Long over, finished and done with. The I.R.A. and the War of Independence are as dead as the Charleston." Young Brendan,...
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last film (she died shortly after it was finished last year) isn't worthy of her talents. The best that can be said for it is that it's a pretty bit of fluff. Producer- director Stanley Donen must...
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drawing rooms. Mr. Axelrod works the new vineyard --Westport Comedy, so classified by Mr. Robert Bru- stein (after a native watering-place) and one of the remarkable artifacts of American theater. ...
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