NEWS AND VIEWS A month ago, the House of Representatives quietly appropriated another year's funds for the Committee on UnAmerican Activities. In a year when government support for...
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CORRESPONDENCE Cuban Refugees Miami, Fla. To the Editors: In the November 19 issue of Commonweal Mr. C. K. Yearley wrote about the impact of Cuban refugees on Miami. I have spent the last...
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THE PRICE OF VIETNAM At least on paper, the Great Society Saigon-style is not unpleasant to contemplate. An independent South Vietnam, bristling with democratic politics and social reform,...
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS RIGHT AND LEFT Right and Left mean something as political categories but it is hard to say exactly what. We could not do without them; yet their major effect today is to...
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ALL THINGS CONSIDERED ARE CITIES LIVABLE? President Johnson finally dropped the other shoe some weeks ago and made the long-delayed appointment of Robert C. Weaver as secretary of the...
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CONTRACEPTION AND THE COUNCIL A fresh analysis, a new framework JOHN T. NOONAN, JR. Vatican II stated expressly that as to contraception "the Holy Synod does not intend to propose...
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Impasse in Argentina THE SHADOW OF PERON JAIME POTENZE Ten years after the overthrow of Juan Peron, he is still the biggest problem of Argentine politics. And that fact leads to one sad...
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THE BOGART VOGUE Character and cult GERALD WEALES Anyone entangled, emotionally and aesthetically, in the movies of the 1930's and 1940's, as I am, is likely to view with suspicion the...
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BOBLEY WILSON, JR. MARCH In black galoshes, syruping Through the spring slush, the boy Is me. This is a day Melancholy for everything: The curbs melt off into brown streams, The gutters take...
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CITIES OF THE PLAIN THE SCREEN American film makers have sprung three movies that seem determined to prove that La Dolce Vita in the States is just as atrociously unsweet as that...
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TWO-HEADED IRISHMAN THE STAGE I don't know the history of the stage-Irishman. But I imagine that this clownish compound of sentimentality and bluster, this sugar-coated windbag, originally...
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BOOKS Dispatches from the front Seasons of Discontent ROBERT BRUSTEIN Simon & Schuster, $5.95 JOHN SIMON This is no country for critics; certainly not for drama critics. For here the...
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