Some Aspects of Mass Culture  

Casting an indulgent eye on the merry-making of Flemish peasants, Breughel found it brutish, vulgar, lusty, gluttonous, bibulous and, possibly, dulling. Yet, nothing in his canvases suggests the suspicion that the feudal lords might have devised the popular culture of …



Africa Finds its Voice  

No sooner had the upheavals in Asia that followed upon the Second World War begun to subside a little than new and still more elemental social forces made themselves felt in the world. Africa, oldest of the continents in terms …





The Present Struggle for Power  

THE PATTERN OF WORLD CONFLICT. By G. L. Arnold, New York: Dial Press, 250 pp., $4.00. The series of wars and revolutions that mark twentieth century history show no sign of having exhausted themselves. No sooner do the power blocs …





South Africa: Ordeal and Hope  

I Question: Mr. Abrahams, what does Africa mean to you? Answer: It means the people I know most intimately, the people with whom I grew up. It’s emotional; subjective. It is one of those complex things that goes into the …



Notes on the Russian Turn  

Which shall one stress—the extent to which important changes have occurred or the extent to which Russian society under Khrushchev remains continuous with that under Stalin? It depends on the frame of discourse. In trying to foresee the consequences of …













The Negro and the Church  

One of the anachronisms of life in this city is the device used to enforce segregation on the buses: a small wooden sign marked “For Colored Only” with two pegs that fit in slots on the backs of seats. This …