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The Seventh Seal

By John E. Mcnees  • 

In the midst of the apocalyptic vision vouchsafed the apostle John on the island of Patmos, there occurs a moment


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MacLeish's 'J. B.': A Review of Reviews

By John E. Mcnees  • 

There is probably no way to prove that the people who like J.B. are the same ones who read Time


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The Burnt Flower-Bed

By John E. Mcnees  • 

L'Aiuola Bruciata, the work receiving its first American performance this week at the Tufts Arena Theater as The Burnt Flower-Bed,


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The Religion of Unbelief: Ethics Without God

By John E. Mcnees  • 

Once a week or so, an elderly Negro woman stalks down the crowded sidewalks of Harvard Square and Massachusetts Avenue,


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The Seventh Seal

By John E. Mcnees  • 

In the midst of the apocalyptic vision vouchsafed the apostle John on the island of Patmos, there occurs a moment


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Oedipus Rex

By John E. Mcnees  • 

Aristotle wrote in his Poetics that the ideal drama should be grounded on a plot so firm that, "even without


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The Life of Bertrand Russell: Apologia for Modern Paganism

By John E. Mcnees  • 

Bertrand Russell stands at the end of a philosophic line of succession extending from John Locke through David Hume and


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The Quest at Princeton For the Cocktail Soul

By John E. Mcnees  • 

"My own ideals for the University are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. The two, indeed, seem to


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Father Feeney Quits Cambridge; St. Benedict's Center Up for Sale

By John E. Mcnees  • 

Father Leonard J. Feeney, excommunicated Roman Catholic priest, is moving away from Cambridge. The 60-year-old former Jesuit and his band

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