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Harder to take was Robert Whitman's black-draped funeral fun house, hung with violently vibrating Mylar mirrors. A screaming oscillator sadistically shivered the viewers' eardrums as it shattered their reflections on the mirrors. Equally diabolical was Boyd Mefferd's mini-discotheque, where strobe lights flashed up through colored plastic panels in the floor with such seeming moderation that many of the younger spectators felt an irresistible urge to sit or lie down in order to get closer to the beams...
...yearning for spirituality that may exist in the average American church, it is questionable how many churchgoers can and do live up to this ideal. The stratified irrelevance of the established parish, whether Catholic or Protestant, is a major reason for the growth of what Episcopal Chaplain Malcolm Boyd has dubbed "the underground church"-informal, ad hoc gatherings of Christians who cross over and above denominational lines to celebrate improvised Eucharists in each other's homes, and study Scripture or theology together...
...destroy the church as a central community of faith. What they really want to do is reform it drastically, divest it of rigid structure, authoritarianism, senseless dogma and suffocating ritual, which the dissidents feel bear little relation to true Christianity. What the rebels are seeking, says Boyd, is a church that "will be seen less and less as a building on a corner, to be visited to indulge in a period of 'magic'. Smaller Christian communities will replace larger ones; clergy will be employed in 'the world,' with only distant memories of a priestly mystique...
...Nancy Boyd, soprano, lacked purity Friday evening and was often blemished by curious shifts of timbre. Technically, however, she was in complete control and in her final number picked her way through a twisting coloratura passage and then leapt to a ringing high D. Tenor Roger Childs was called on only once--to sing "The Roasted Cygnet's Song," which lies in a stratospheric register--and Childs produced the notes as well as the proper quality of a wailing lament...
Meanwhile, Chrysler President Virgil Boyd, a dealer before he got into the manufacturing end of the business, has been busy increasing Chrysler dealerships. They have risen from 5,580 to 6,409 since 1962, and Boyd has respotted many of the dealerships in better selling locations. Last week Chrysler dealers were moving new cars at the rate...