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LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). "Martin Buber: An Encounter with Mankind" examines the accomplishments and background of one of this century's greatest Jewish religious thinkers...
...religion of the future" predicted by Religious Atheist Marie Guyau in 1886 is coming into existence. In 1957 Martin Buber told a Unitarian minister: "The old distinctions between religion and non-religion are dead. Religion has nothing to do with church attendance as such nor with doctrinal beliefs as such. These old distinctions are utterly meaningless in the present situation. Those who call themselves religious and those who call themselves nonreligious must join hands to find the first steps out of our human situation. In his readiness to do this, the agnostic or even the atheist may be more religious...
...REALLY WANT TO DO (Imperial). Chér solos the Dylan song that lays down Martin Buber's I-Thou philosophy for teenagers: "I don't want to select you, dissect you, inspect you or reject you./ All I really want to do is be friends with you." Chér turns out to have a coarse, grainy alto voice with a wide-open quality that projects a lot of feeling without too much sentimentality...
...Buber, however, spirit was always more important than slogan; what mattered was that men should live in dialogue. He cared little for earthly honor, and often cited the advice of the Hasidic master who said that man should always have two pockets to reach into according to need. In his right pocket should be the words: "For my sake the world was created"; in his left: "I am dust and ashes...
Died. Dr. Martin Buber, 87, renowned Jewish philosopher, theologian and poet; of uremia followed by a stroke; in Jerusalem (see RELIGION...