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...anyone in Harvard Square hasn't heard of James Bond, he must be the all-time champion Lamont hibernator or chem lab wonk. The Bond canon, ranging from the sublime (Live and Let Die) to the ridiculous (The Spy Who Loved Me), is a perennial paperback bestseller series, and on the merest hint the "sneak preview" of From Russia With Love at the Harvard Square Theater a fortnight ago proved to be the biggest sellout of the year...
Ambulance chasing, barratry, capping, running, soliciting - by whatever name it is known, the practice of stir ring up law business is condemned by lawyers and laymen alike. The American Bar Association's canons of ethics are so strict that even "lay intermediar ies" - nonlawyers who aid in the choice of a lawyer - are banned from the one-to-one relationship between lawyer and client. Canon 35 allows lawyers to represent an organization, but not its members "in respect to their individual affairs." Canon 47 expressly forbids "the unauthorized practice of law by any lay agency, personal or corporate...
Catholic moralists in the U.S. reacted to the article as if Canon Janssens had nailed a 96th thesis to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church. The Rev. Francis J. Connell, former dean of the School of Sacred Theology at Catholic University, said that the article was "absolutely contrary to the teaching of the church in this area." In a rebuttal of Janssens' thesis that was printed by many diocesan papers, Jesuit Father Edward Duff wrote that "no established Catholic theologian is on record as agreeing with...
...Responsible Parenthood." From the time of St. Paul, who said, "It is better to marry than to burn" (meaning, with passion), Catholic teaching on marriage has implied that sexual pleasure was a reward that God gave to married couples for producing children. The canon law of the church describes the primary end of marriage as the procreation and education of children; the mutual love of husband and wife and what the code grimly refers to as "the allaying of concupiscence" are essential but secondary ends. Many a priest still preaches that a house-cramming brood is the goal...
...senses this obsession; his concern is his own soul, "Where honor should be, in me there is only a void," he tells his mistress (Sian Phillips). Then the easy-living courtier becomes archbishop, and fate summons him to uphold "the honor of God." But does he die to defend canon law, made great by the great office thrust upon him, or is he merely a self-appointed martyr in search of his Cain? Given a mass of ambiguities to project, Burton projects them remarkably well. He daringly meets the competition offered by O'Toole with a sober, almost stubbornly...