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...White House Diary. L.B.J., a month after ordering the bombing of North Viet Nam: "I can't get out. I can't finish it with what I've got. So what the hell can I do?" Lady Bird, on Daughter Luci's dress for her baptism into the Roman Catholic Church: "About as inconspicuous as Brigitte Bardot." On Lynda Bird's boy friend, Actor George Hamilton: "Part of the wine of life, exciting and heady." On the surprises in L.B.J.'s bedroom: "I walked in this morning for coffee, and who should be sitting...
...This is an American approach to an American problem," said Dollard. "Traditionally, a person with a baptism record has the right of membership in a parish. I'm not impressed by that any more. People have got to pay to get into this outfit from now on." The reaction of the flock, which was probably more bothered by the coercion than by the $8 bite, was decisive if not generous. Church membership since the change has dropped from 850 families...
...intensely personal religious experience in 1946-which she speaks of only as her "baptism of the Holy Spirit"-inspired Kathryn to begin preaching regularly about the Holy Spirit. Healing came by accident, when a woman announced one night that she had been cured of a tumor during a previous Kuhlman sermon...
...bypass the topless-bottomless shows. Outside Atlanta, amid the acid rock, nude bathing and casual lovemaking of a rock festival, a young couple and their friends man two "Jesus tents" for the lost and lonely. In Boise, beaded and bell-bottomed converts wade into the river for a mass baptism; some onlookers are so charmed that they join...
This last twenty minute metee casts the opening idyll in a differentlight. The issues were meant to be unimportant; what matters most is the pain of the bust, the baptism under tear gas, and coming of age. While there is much evidence to defend this emotionalism, it becomes an escape valve for rock numbers, artsy shots, synthetic myth making, and facile evasion of issues...