week by week WAYS TO RECOVERY IT IS OVER a quarter of a century since Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal advisers introduced a whole series of measures designed to end the Big Depression. The...
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ALL THINGS CONSIDERED THE EICHMANN CASE IN HIS PRE-TRIAL deposition to the Israeli police, Adolph Eichmann tried to justify his actions by explaining that he would have killed his own father if he...
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Return of the Gadfly By Soviet literary critics its author is ranked as one of the four greatest fiction writers in English by ANNE FREMANTLE THE TREMENDOUS success of Doctor Zhivago in the Free...
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RUTHLESS AND UNCOMFORTABLE Adventurer Montherlant by MARTIN TURNELL IN HIS introduction to a new translation of Henry de Montherlant's Selected Essays, Peter Quennell writes: "No French...
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The Ox Mountain Parable of Meng Tzu by THOMAS MERTON IN THE FOURTH and third centuries B.C., in an age, (like ours) of war and chaos, Meng Tzu, (Mencius) built on the spiritual foundations which...
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SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE Poets on the New Frontier by BETTE RICHART PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S Inauguration was a great come-and-get-it day for poets, who are (or have been) resigned to doing without much...
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THE SCREEN THE WASTE LAND BETWEEN THE SYMBOLS at the beginning and end of "La Dolce Vita" is a series of episodes showing what's wrong with modern society. And what's seen as wrong with it is...
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OF NOTE CATHOLICS AND THE PRESENT IN AN ADDRESS at the fifty-eighth annual convention of the National Catholic Educational Association, Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., president of the...
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BOOKS A Brilliant and Thorough Contemplation of Dramatic Art THE DEATH OF TRAGEDY. By George Steiner. Knopf. $5.00. By RICHARD GILMAN NEAR THE END of this long essay on the decline of tragic...
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1950-1960: A POEM A rooster flexing a wing at a time, testing each leg for a step, a calf's saliva smeared and frozen to its pelt, the stanchioned cow with wrinkled udders cold until they...
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