Vietnam (Again) AT THE moment it is not at all clear what President Johnson is prepared to do about Vietnam. The resignation of Roger Hilsman as Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern...
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This Side of the Curtain EVER SINCE 1958, when the present government of the Sudan took over through a military coup, the Khartoum regime has been trying to make a unitary Moslem state out of that...
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In Search of Honesty Rome A FEW WEEKS ago, here in Rome, I had dinner with another layman and two theologians. Inevitably, conversation turned to the Ecumenical Council. Someone asked the...
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John P.Sisk The Mirrors of Advertising More than serious literature and art, advertising reflects the real interests of most people SOME YEARS AGO James Wechsler, editor of the New York Post,...
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SEYMOUR SLESSINGER Trading with the Communists Our allies are unlikely to find the panacea they are hoping for WHAT TURNS a blessing into a mixed blessing? Anyone interested in a graphic...
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IRVING HALPERIN Postscript to Death "Why are you alive when the others are not?" "MY ENTIRE work is based on the difficulty of killing, or of committing suicide," said Elie Wiesel last year in an...
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AN EXCHANGE OF VIEWS Cuba and the Church TO THE EDITORS: Leslie Dewart's book Christianity and Revolution [excerpts, Oct. 11] is an accusation against the United States and the Cuban Catholic...
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There Are Matters that demand early sun the gloss of all color absorbed in two roadside crows the several hues of fall leaf memorizing our hills the unexpectedness of pockets of poplar each...
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THE SCREEN Tom and Hank AT THE beginning of the fine movie version of "Becket," King Henry II comes to the tomb of St. Thomas in Canterbury Cathedral to pray and do penance. His first words are,...
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THE STAGE King Lahr AMONG the few solid pleasures which our theater continues to afford is that of being in the presence from time to time of a performer like Zero Mostel or Bert Lahr. Lahr may...
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BOOKS Tension Between Individualism and Community in the Church The Variety of Catholic Attitudes. By Theodore Westow. Herder & Herder. $3.50. by H. A. Reinhold THOSE of us who can remember the...
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