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...undergraduate at the University of Southern California (class of '71), Eric Cohen was so bored by some professors that he fell asleep in class. Now he is doing his best to keep the current student body from dozing off too. In fact, Cohen, a gagwriter for Johnny Carson and NBCTV, has been hired by U.S.C. to write jokes for professors to use in their lecture courses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Heeere's the Prof... | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

...Eugene Carson Blake President, Bread for the World Stamford, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Nov. 25, 1974 | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

Father, however, is a scientist, a student of Darwin. He resolves to raise the boy to be a natural man, with the skills and wiles of an animal. As he grows (he is portrayed at an older age by John David Carson), he proves to be more unfettered by convention than Father might have liked. As his mother comments, in what may be the worst single line of dialogue so far this year, "What we've got is a lusting male." Nothing will do but that Junior must have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unnatural Acts | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...canninesss is that he has surrounded himself with players who give him no competition. Van Devere (Scott's wife offscreen) delivers. under what must have been her husband's guidance, the most ruthlessly embarrassing hysterics since Marilyn Monroe's desert outburst in The Misfits. Carson, similarly clumsy, suggests not so much the primitive life as a somewhat furtive one, say, in late-night doorways on Manhattan's Third Avenue. The George C. Scott of former years, the actor of furious power, would never have worked with Director Scott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Unnatural Acts | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

Last year, at the Holiness Church of God in Jesus' Name in Carson Springs, Term., an assistant pastor and a church elder died after drinking strychnine during a snake-handling ceremony. Soon after, a circuit court judge signed an injunction prohibiting snake handling at the church but-curiously -permitting the drinking of strychnine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pentecostal Bite | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

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