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...been divided and defensive, giving it durability and a future. He laid the foundation for Tory democracy, a form of government with appeal to all classes. If Nixon sees something of himself in Disraeli, it is not mere gimmickry. Presented by Pat Moynihan with a copy of Robert Blake's massive biography of Disraeli, the President liked what he read so well that he has been drawing on the book for appropriate quotes ever since...
This is not prospectus enough. But, as William Blake, one of Roszak's cultural heroes, said: "Man must and will have Some Religion." Roszak seems to equate demand and supply. If enough "enthusiasm"-a favorite Roszak word-is present, surely the justification for that enthusiasm must shortly follow...
Potter becomes the third man to occupy the office since the World Council was founded in 1948. Scholarly Dutchman W.A. Visser 't Hooft, one of the organization's founding fathers, held the post until 1966, when he was succeeded by noted U.S. Presbyterian Ecumenist Eugene Carson Blake. Now 65, Blake is due to retire this fall. Potter will then take up a five-year term as ecumenical spokesman for more than 250 member denominations of the World Council, including Protestants, Anglicans and Eastern Orthodox -some 400 million Christians in all. Since Protestants form the core of the organization...
Most of the builders, as Blake is warned, are rough as cobs. But Joe Santo, whose lats and traps are so spectacular that he is a cinch to become Mr. Southeast, is another matter. He is not only an athlete of mythic skill but a knockabout saint whose sort last surfaced in the works of Kerouac and Kesey. In short, he is good, clean wish fulfillment, and author and hero fall in love with him, in the manner of small boys. Santo does an impromptu star turn at a rodeo, befriends and soothes some strung-out hippies, and finally hands...
What is very good in the novel is Blake's undeluded but cheerful acceptance of people and things that he knows are both second-rate and a bit flaky. Body building is both, but Blake is curious, and what the hell, largeness is all. Charles Gaines, who is able to write about muscular matters without sounding as if he were arm wrestling with Hemingway's ghost, is as fascinated by the body builders as his hero Blake is, and he gives their posing contests a kind of loopy dignity.-John Skow