THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week THE BREAK WITH CUBA T O AN IMPRESSIVE degree, the last days of the...
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Protestants and Natural Law What message can the Church offer to modern society apart from the Sermon on the Mount? by GREGORY BAUM T HE ECUMENICAL community of Protestant Christians is keenly...
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Has the time come to change our present system? The President's Electors by STEPHEN R. GRAUBARD THE INAUGURATION of a new President is an appropriate moment to reflect on the Constitution which...
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which shift from Party to Party, the political battle would be considerably less engrossing if the electoral vote simply reflected a percentage of the popular vote. As for the Mundt recommendations,...
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HERE AND THERE DWIGHT EISENHOWER, A GOOD MAN THERE WAS a story making the rounds during the holidays about a Japanese toy called the Eisenhower doll. The Eisenhower doll is a wind-up toy. You...
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THE SCREEN DROP THAT NAME A S THE MOVIE capital of the world, Hollywood may be on the skids, but it really doesn't have to advertise itself in one movie as blatantly as it does in "Pepe" to...
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BOOKS Broadside Attack on the Patriarchs of Modern Poetry IN DEFENSE OF IGNORANCE. By Karl Shapiro. Random House. $6.50. By JOHN LOGAN A LLEN TATE recently wrote, "I would think that after T. S....
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deprecated by Eliot. At the same time Shapiro disapproves of certain writers in the Eliot canon, for example Donne and Baudelaire. I find his approval of the first group a good deal better...
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was suddenly for him part of the summer, part of its richness." But beyond this, even when Shadbolt is sharper, he tries to put in too much: whole histories to support his dramatized moments,...
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