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THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-SEVENTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION week by week THE INAUGURATION: 1961 T HE INAUGURATION of John F. Kennedy as...
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ALL THINGS CONSIDERED A PERSONAL NOTE W ITH THIS ISSUE, I begin my tenth year at The Commonweal. Nine years ago, in Chicago, I was asked if I'd care to come East to become managing editor. I made...
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Scandal of New Orleans Racist brutality had operated in furtive, effective ways long before the mobs formed on the street by JAMES LAWRENCE T HE HAPPY image of New Orleans, the carefree Carnival...
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SYRIAN DISCONTENT Cracks in Arab Unity by JAMES DAVIDSON A RAB UNITY, El Weheda El Arabiya, despite all the quarreling and disunity, is probably the most cherished ideal of the fifty million...
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usual imports, Syria had to lodge foreign exchange deficits of about L.S. 300 million in 1958 and again in 1959. The supply of currency rose by forty per cent between 1958 and 1959, making the...
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and European notions of formality fail to coincide. Moreover, by the closing days a number of Americans had caught the habit and were themselves reading off screeds composed for the occasion....
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HERE AND THERE THIRTY AND ALL THAT T HE FIRST of these one-page essays appeared early in 1951. This will be the last. Every man has only a few decades of active work, and I will have to leave what...
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THE AUTHORS REPLY "Liberal-Conservative Debate" ED. NOTE: In the December 16th issue, under the general title "The Catholic in the Modern World," William F. Buckley, Jr. set forth "A Conservative...
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THE SCREEN LIFE WITH FATHER IF EVER a film started out on the wrong foot for me it is "Home Is the Hero," an import from Ireland that opens with a scene in a pub filled with local characters being...
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OF NOTE THE CATHOLIC MINORITY N THE WINTER issue of Thought (Fordham I University Press, 441 East Fordham Rd., New York 58, N.Y.; single copy $1.25, yearly $5) Father Thomas T. McAvoy, C.S.C., of...
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first-class American citizens with full economic and social independence. . . . Social leadership in the cultural world of AngloAmerica is something that does not arise quickly without generations...
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Vol. 073 Issue 019 (February 3 1961)
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