THE COMMONWEAL A WEEKLY REVIEW OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LITERATURE AND THE ARTS Remembering Freedom LEARNING, Socrates held, is the remembering of what we have always known, but have forgotten. Thus...
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How Much Liberty? NAMES LIKE Tuscaloosa, Birmingham and Jackson have tended to foster the illusion that the South is the unique locus of the failure to date of American democracy. The truth...
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Only the Beginning IT HAS long been foreseeable that there would be a sharp rise in job-seekers when those born in the postwar baby-boom years entered the labor market. Up to now, when the...
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Government and TV THE DEPARTURE of Newton Minow as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission seems to have sparked a new round of criticism of television programming. The gap between...
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WASHINGTON REPORT Rockefeller: Down But Not Out GOVERNOR NELSON Rockefeller was once asked why he chose to make his career in public life as a Republican, since he served successfully in the...
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"The Glorious Freedom of the Children of God" The Church and Freedom HANS KUNG Last summer I was visited in my country by an extremely friendly colleague from a famous American University,...
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Prayer of the Church in Council Easter in me, triumphant Lord: grow, labor, suffer, and be glad. Repentecost, creative Breath: speak to my heart and say, "See, your God is with you and within...
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Teilhard de Chardin In radial whirl within-of-things Leaf and bird ascend Soft as an oboe leaf and bird Toward galaxies of mind Can leap to consciousness uplift Rose or leaf begun In Sappho's...
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THE STAGE Good-by Turgenev THERE IS just so much seriousness and imaginative risk-taking and reverence for high tradition allowed in the American theater, in the same way that there is just so...
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THE SCREEN Tricks of the Trade LIKE THE torrents of spring, the studios have suddenly released a slew of films. Perhaps they are meant to catch the early summer trade, or perhaps they...
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CORRESPONDENCE "The Harvard Colloquium" Washington, D.C. TO THE EDITORS: The "success" of the ProtestantCatholic Colloquium at Harvard University was well described in your editorial of April...
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BOOKS An Original, Thus Disturbing, Humor Portrait of an Artist with 26 Horses. By William Eastlake. Simon and Schuster. $3.95. by William James Smith MR. EASTLAKE is an undiscovered genius...
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