THE Commonweal A Weekly Review of Public Affairs, Literature, and the Arts THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR OF PUBLICATION -week by weekPOLICING ATOM TESTS THE DESIRE for disarmament is clearly universal....
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China's Great Leap The totalitarian agony of the Chinese people could result in a widespread food shortage, even starvation, at the very moment when it succeeds by MICHAEL HARRINGTON COMMUNIST...
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The last election was marred by a campaign of crude anti-Catholicism Bigotry in California by LAWRENCE T. KING THE RECENT balloting in California brought an outpouring of voters unprecedented...
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Almost everywhere, prisons and penal institutions are becoming much more human New Look in Prisons by J. L. BENVENIST1 SINCE THE WAR, penal institutions all over Western Europe have been...
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HERE AND THERE REFLECTIONS OF A CONTROVERSIAL FIGURE HOW DOES it feel to be a controversial figure? I should know. Like everyone else connected with The Commonweal, I have been involved in one...
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THE SCREEN as a severe warning against sending a boy to do a psychiatrist's job. THE PITY OF IT ALL I T IS UNFORTUNATE ~at Dore Schary's first independent production is Lonelyhearts,...
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THE STAGE OF HAMMERED GOLD AND GOLD ENAMELLING ABOUT THE EVENT of Sir John Gielgud in our theater of Shakespearean intent, one might invoke that tribute offered by Mr. Stark Young to the...
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COMMUNICATIONS "CERTAIN POEMS" A. P. O., Germany TO THE EDITORS: I regret that my reaction to "Vision and Words," a review in your December 19 issue, must be late in reaching you. My...
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BOOKS The Development of the Poetic Personality SELECTED POEMS 1928-1958. By Stanley Kunitz. Atlantic-Little, Brown. $3.75. MIRRORS AND WINDOWS: POEMS. By Howard Nemerov. ...
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