Desegregation’s Tortuous Course: Breakthrough in Norfolk by Robert C. Smith WHEN the Federal and state courts ended Virginia's "massive resistance" to integration at the end of January, 10,000 Norfolk students,…
Desegregation’s Tortuous Course: Washington: Showcase of Integration by Erwin Knoll FOLLOWING the collapse of Virginia's "massive resistance" to public school desegregation in the face of adverse court decisions, Governor J.…
On the Horizon: S. N. Behrman Comes Home by Gerald Weales MOST American playwrights are fitted out with identification labels early in their careers. A conventional tag makes easy the reaction…
EncoreA Story by James Purdy HE'S in that Greek restaurant every night. I thought you knew that," Merta told her brother. 'What does he do…
Epstein, Photographs by Geoffrey Ireland, Introduction by Laurie Lee by Alfred Werner SIR JACOB EPSTEIN told me that he was not too happy about this elegant volume: it was much too "personal."…
Liberal Government for “Backward” States:Is Only Dictatorship Practical? by William J. Newman "Mandamus and certiorari are flowers of paradise, and the whole length and breadth of Pakistan is not wide enough to…
Pious and Secular America, by Reinhold Niebuhr by Commentary Bk A BOOK by Reinhold Niebuhr is always an excellent illustration of the truth of his basic principle: that good and…
Spain, by Salvador de Madariaga by George Lichtheim WHEN the first edition of this book was published in 1930, Salvador de Madariaga held the chair of Spanish literature…
The Black March, by Peter Neumann by Francis Golffing PETER NEUMANN-a former SS lieutenant in the Viking division-records in this diary faithfully and sans phrase his early upbringing in…
The Blessedness of the Scholar:Sources of the Tradition by Moses Hadas SCHOLARS, like women, are deviations from the norm Man; and just as the position of women can serve as a…
The Four Holy Communities:The Jewries of Medieval Provence by Allan Temko These . . . cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger. .…
The Israeli Scene:Politics, Painting, and Other Matters by Meir Mindlin AS IT recedes into the past, the SuezSinai war may produce only labored rhetorical echoes in the House of Commons,…
The Middle East in Transition, edited by Walter Z. Laqueur by Joel Carmichael THE confluence of the Arab renaissance and Soviet policy, a central factor in world politics, is the dominant theme of…
The Picaresque Saint, by R. W. B. Lewis by Jean Garrigue THIS is criticism with a philosophical intent. R. W. B. Lewis is not interested in studying the novels of his…
The Poorhouse Fair, by John Updike by David Fitelson JOHN UPDIKE, one of the more talented of the New Yorker's resident storytellers, has had a hearty but not very…
Two Poems by Delmore Schwartz ABRAHAM (To J.M. Kaplan) I WAS a mere boy in a stone-cutter's shop When, early one evening, my raised hand…
