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(5 of 10) native costume (Ivy League in this case). Cheever has infiltrated the permissive, prosperous characters who people High Suburbia and is apt to show up on the cocktail terrace or dining room to disconcert his agnostic friends with a pulpit message and scandalize the merely pious by preaching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Novelists: Ovid in Ossining | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

For Selective Service authorities in New York and Justice Department officials in Washington, Daniel Seeger presented a baffling problem. A New Yorker of draft age, Seeger claimed exemption as a conscientious objector, but he was an unusual sort of c.o. Although raised in a Roman Catholic family (two of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Constitution: The Conscientious Nonbeliever | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

"That Big Clown." Seeking well-known names for his pulpit, Glenesk has lured to Spencer speakers as different as Theologian Paul Tillich and India's agnostic ex-Defense Minister Krishna Menon. His own arts-conscious sermons are more likely to refer to Edward Albee than to Cain and Abel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Worship: Drama at the Altar | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

Second, "normless relativism." brought on by cross-cultural studies, leaves man agnostic and rootless. He needs a "common fundamental principle." And Tillich finds it; merely by asserting its existence. Most anthropologists disagree with him.

Author: By Grant M. Ujifusa, | Title: Tillich: An Impossible Struggle | 12/12/1963 | See Source »

If the main plot is arch, the subplot is fallen-arch. A coolheaded, busy, busy, busy Macy executive (Janis Paige) has been burned on the matrimonial altar and has sworn off men. Her next-door neighbor is an ex-marine (Craig Stevens) who has sworn off women in favor of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: It Shouldn't Happen To Santa Claus | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

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