Word: bellah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wane, but to some appalled and devout Christians, unbelief seems ascendant, and Antichrist just around the corner. The trouble with the image, according to an international symposium on unbelief last week, is that it is all wrong. "The modern world," declared University of California Sociologist Robert N. Bellah without irony, "is as alive with religious possibility as any epoch in human history...
Part of the problem, explained Sociologist Bellah, derives from the traditional idea of belief. From the days of the church fathers, Christianity has tended to equate belief with intellectual assent to a given body of dogma. In Bellah's view, young people today see it rather as a commitment, part of a "quest for personal authenticity" that can take them into Black Power or the Peace Corps, hippiedom or Zen, drugs or sex. Some of these convictions hardly qualify as "beliefs" by any standard, and most of them are clearly not oriented toward God at all. Nonetheless, they...
...picture cannot always pass a close inspection. The boy's character is often unclear, the screenplay sometimes cluttered, the dialogue occasionally cute. But Author James Warner Bellah, who has written hundreds of horse operas for both slicks and pulps, wrote this one with historical knowledge and literary care. Director Joseph (Outcasts of Poker Flat) Newman obviously inspired his actors. Arthur O'Connell, as a coony old sergeant, gives the finest performance of his screen career. Actor Boone, in trying to evoke the warrior imago, at times seems less a man than a manner-like Paladin, the sixgun-slinger...