THE COMMONWEAL A WEEKLY REVIEW OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, LITERATURE AND THE ARTS Nuclear Slow-Down SIGNS ARE MULTIPLYING of increasing relaxation of the tensions between the United States and Soviet...
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The Prayer Amendment REPRESENTATIVE Frank J. Becker (R.-N.Y.) is a determined man. For twenty-two months he urged Emanuel Celler (D.-N.Y.), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, to hold...
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NEWS & VIEWS Long, Hot Summer THE OPENING of the World's Fair was a dispiriting occasion, what with overcast skies and intermittent rain, enlivened only by the verve of the parading and...
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HERE AND THERE J.F.K.—A Final Word Rome FROM THE BEGINNING, I was an almost scandalously faithful supporter of John F. Kennedy. Sometimes it was a source of personal embarrassment, for I...
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REPORT ON A COUP April Fool's Day in Brazil MILITARY COUPS in Latin America are invariably acknowledged with a smile and dismissed as bad jokes. The image of the mustachioed general on...
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ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Getting Nowhere Fast? "THE RACIST MIND has contrived an almost limitless number of evasive analogues to justify the unjustifiable." These were the opening words from a...
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An Agonizingly Special Posture The Wars of Wyndham Lewis GEORGE GREENE IN 1914, with that gift of baleful prophecy he was never to curb. Wyndham Lewis wished he had been born on a volcanic...
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The View Is Less Panoramic On Women Novelists DORIS GRUMBACH LET US NOTE the phenomenon that, in the world of critics, it is mainly Catholic critics who have felt a need to raise such questions...
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If Winter Comes A Short Story by Joseph E. Kokjohn THE BELL RANG like a fire alarm, and the students began to desert him. Father Edwards, removing his glasses and stuffing his notes on...
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The Silence Within Under the dark thunder, under the wonder of why, we wait; we hear; we fear; and near the mask our eyes meet grief with grief. The heart's wearing time is chained to the...
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Letter from Paris ANNE FREMANTLE Paris THE PAST three months have seen the publication of many books of special interest for French (and American) Catholics. Much the most interesting is, of...
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