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IssueVol. 021 Issue 012 (December 1 1957)
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Paid articleWHO SPEAKS FOR PEACE?
Who Speaks for Peace? OUT OF the cackle of confusion that accompanies the Soviet Sputniks whirling in outer space come half a dozen dominant themes. There are those who plead for a czar of all the...
Paid articleNOTES IN THE NEWS
notes in the news Science, Unlimited A year and a half ago, the Editor of The- Progressive, in commenting on the extraordinary Soviet absorption in science and technology, reported from Moscow...
Paid articleFILTERS AND SPUTNIKS
Morgan, Edward P.
Filters and Sputniks by EDWARD P. MORGAN This article is adapted from one of Mr. Morgan's nightly commentaries on the news sponsored by the AFL-CIO—in our judgment one of the most distinguished...
Paid articleUNLIMITED HORIZONS FOR FREE EXPRESSION
Douglas, William O.
Unlimited Horizons For Free Expression by WILLIAM 0. DOUGLAS This article by Justice Douglas is adapted from the first chapter of a new book, The Right of the People, which Doubleday ir Company...
Paid articleTHE MEANING OF THE RED MOONS
Amrine, Michael
The Meaning of the Red Moons by MICHAEL AMRINE THE first thing to say of the new moons created by the new Russia is that it marks a major turn of history. At the immediate time of such events,...
Paid articleA CONVERSATION AT LITTLE ROCK
A Conversation at LITTLE ROCK Seven students from Little Rock's Central High School were brought together for a panel discussion by Mrs. Jorunn Ricketts, a correspondent for Norwegian newspapers....
Paid articleTHE EMINENTLY ACCEPTABLE JOSEPH S. CLARK
Shannon, William V.
The Eminently Acceptable Joseph S. Clark by WILLIAM V. SHANNON WHAT ARE the traditional qualifications for a Democratic Presidential candidate? Past experience would indicate he should be a white,...
Paid articleCAESAR AND GOD IN CALIFORNIA
Mayer, Milton
Caesar and God in California by MILTON MAYER MAYBE it's because the Continental Shelf is so narrow—nothing more than a ledge, really. And if people get vertigo standing on ledges, you can imagine...
Paid articleA SHIELD AGAINST BUSINESS AND LABOR GIANTS
Quinn, T. K.
A Shield Against Business and Labor Giants by T. K. QUINN WHATEVER the words of denial and confusion, the recent, unwarranted oil and steel price rises have increased already swollen profits and...
Paid articleBRITISH LABOR CHANGES COURSE
Rose, Richard
British Labor Changes Course by RICHARD ROSE London THE British Labor Party is moving away from its traditional Socialist emphasis upon nationalization. It is also moving closer to victory in the...
Paid articleNEW VISTAS IN MENTAL HEALTH
Greenberg, Selig
New Vistas in Mental Health by SELIG GREENBERG OF ALL the enigmas confronting man, none seems so unfathomable as the mystery of the caverns of his own mind, of how the fantastically complex...
Paid articleTHE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM Signal Public Service Dear Sirs: At this time of crisis for both East and West, The Progressive has performed a signal public service in publishing a special issue devoted to...
Paid articleTHE NEWEST POETRY
HOFFMAN, FREDERICK J.
The Newest Poetry by FREDERICK J. HOFFMAN JOHN HALL WHEELOCK, introducing the fourth volume of Poets Today (Scribner's), makes an observation of a kind that has become customary in recent...
Paid articleRESTLESS ROOSEVELT
HOFSTADTER, RICHARD
Restless Roosevelt The Democratic Roosevelt, by Rexford G. Tugwell. Doubleday. 712 pp. $8.50. Reviewed by Richard Hofstadter A BIOGRAPHY of Franklin D. Roosevelt by his former lieutenant, Rexford...
Paid articleTITO'S HERESY
Raymond, Jack
Tito's Heresy The Heretic, by Fitzroy Maclean,; Harper. 436 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by Jack Raymond FITZROY MACLEAN'S The Heretic is a book of broader scope than the brilliant sketches and political...
Paid articleWARNING VOICE
Snelling, Paula
White Man, Listen! by Richard Wright. Doubleday. 190 pp. $3. Reviewed by Paula Snelling IT IS hard to talk to a deaf man. Especially when he is blind-driving the car we are all riding in, and...
Paid articleBIG BROTHER'
North, Robert C.
'Big Brother' Mao's China, by Ygael Gluckstein. Beacon Press. 438 pp. $8.50. 600 Million Chinese, by Robert Guillain. Translated by Mervyn Sa-vill. Criterion Books. 310 pp. $5. Reviewed by Robert...
Paid articleTHE BEST IN ART
Werner, Alfred
The Best in Art by ALFRED WERNER I DO not hesitate to proclaim A Flemish Painting (Skira. $25) the most attractive art book of 1957. Its 112 reproductions in full color are breathtakingly...
Paid articleCLOSE TO COSMIC
Mayer, Milton
Close to Cosmic Majority of One, by Sydney J. Harris. Houghton Mifflin. 305 pp. $3.75. Reviewed by Milton Mayer T'HIS is a collection of some of Sydney Harris' five-times-a-week pieces that...
Paid articleVIVID MEMOIR
Muste, A. J.
Vivid Memoir Testament of Experience, by Vera Brittain. Macmillan. 480 pp. $5. Reviewed by A. J. Muste THIS IS a tightly packed book of nearly five hundred pages. Vera Brittain is a highly...
Paid articlePAPERBACK PLUMS
McCann, William
Paperback Plums by William McCann THOUGH most "quality" paperbacks now coming out continue to be re-issues of earlier hard-cover editions, an impressive number of good "originals" are appearing....
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