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THE Commonweal
A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION .9week by week A GREAT T.V. DEBATE? W RITING recently in This Week...
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America the Affluent
Have we made our wealth and material pos- sessions not means but ends in themselves? by LAWRENCE T. KING T WENTY YEARS ago, most of the income of the average American...
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the easy toleration in our public morals (everyone is doing it, so it can't really be wrong); the eagerness of Americans of every religious commitment to proclaim they are really no different from...
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suit, they would never allow people of low caste in their churches, and they observed the same rules in regard to them as the Hindus. There are many living now who remember the days when a person of...
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HERE AND THERE LOYALTY OATH
S OMETIMES a writer who takes it upon himself to comment on affairs of the day feels that he is spending time and energy on matters which seem important at the...
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HONOR~ DE BALZAC ' lkdFe .9 e~ Historian or visionary.
by MARTIN TURNELL ~I THINK Balzac is the greatest novelist the I world has ever known," Mr. Somerset Maugham once said. Many...
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O NE OF THE signs of a master is that he has no posterity, or at any rate no legitimate offspring. Racine marks the summit of French classic tragedy. He also marks its end. His work could not be...
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O NE OF THE signs of a master is that he has no posterity, or at any rate no legitimate offspring. Racine marks the summit of French classic tragedy. He also marks its end. His work could not be...
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New Wave directors, "The Chasers" is an amoral affair, have English sub-titles and some are dubbed in Eng- reporting what goes on and leaving the audience lish) is only mildly amusing. to draw its...
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Index to Volume LXXI October 2, 1959 to March 25, 1960 Articles, Editorials and Poet~y Abb6 Pierre and the Poor .................. Dorothy Day 146 Abecedary for Thomases .......................
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1920s
1960
Vol. 071 Issue 023 (March 4 1960)
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