THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week CHANGING WORLD, CHANGING U.N. 0 NE OF THE most incisive and caustic...
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Poland Under the Cross The presence of Soviet power is, and will remain in the years to come, a cardinal fact of Polish national life by MATTHEW M. MESTROVIC p OLAND—the endless, monotonous plain...
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HERE AND THERE THE POLITICAL SENSE F OR YEARS the press, religious and secular, ran articles about the Catholic-for-President issue. Learned lectures were given on the subject, television panel...
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SAINT-JOHN PERSE A Question of Man by JOSEPH H. McMAHON T HE AWARD of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Alexis Leger, the poet-diplomat who writes under the evocative pseudonym of Saint-John...
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COMMUNICATIONS "Liberal-Conservative Debate" New York, N. Y. T O THE EDITORS: By his own standards [Dec. I 16] Mr. William Buckley is a Catholic conservative. But I fear he is not a gentleman. No...
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THE SCREEN A WORLD THEY NEVER MADE I T IS INTERESTING that only one of four recently released films about young people is set in the present. All four illustrate, however, some of the conflicts...
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youths go on their wasteful way they are almost symbolic of this aimless period, and if one could forget that this is supposed to stem from James T. Farrell's trilogy, one might find it a fairly...
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in the film that form (not technique) is least easily separated from content—a truism, certainly, yet it has conventionally been the distance between raw material and refined form that determines...
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rative flow, however, are not all there is to The Light in the Piazza. It has a very contemporary theme: the interaction of differing nationals. In mediating between these, rather than in defending...
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