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Fans of Cartoonist Charles Schulz will recognize that the center's publicity gimmick is a direct steal from the comic strip Peanuts, in which Good Ol' Charlie Brown's mean, cranky friend Lucy deals out her own brand of caustic counseling from a "lemonade" booth. But Psychiatrist Weininger apparently knows his Freud better than he knows his Schulz; at this time of year, Lucy's fee is not a nickel. Every October, because it is less comfortable to man an open booth in cold weather, she raises her price to seven cents...
WILLIS'S ANALYSIS of fifties liberalism and its culmination in the secular theology of Harvey Cox and the pragmatic style of John F. Kennedy is right on the mark even as it is somewhat more caustic than either deserves. In The Secular City, Cox carried the theology of Reinhold Niehbur one step too far. Like Niebuhr, Cox recognized the need for "toughness" in the face of the 20th Century challenges. But unlike Niehbuhr who endorsed pragmatism with fear and trembling. Cox embraced it with enormous enthusiasm...
...were attuned to his wit, Bruce was a folk hero; today, he is a vague shadow known only from clips from the Steve Allen show or a line from a Dylan song. Now Dunster House's splendid production of Lenny brings back the caustic comedian to those of us who have heard we should admire him, but don't know...
...charisma and carefully nursed political style. Blacks could listen to him knowing that he was one of their own who, while still young, had paid his dues as a member of SNCC in the early 1960's. And whites could listen to him because he projected himself as less caustic, somehow more "reasonable," than other black leaders. No doubt about it, I thought, this Julian Bond is one smart cookie...
Married. David Steinberg, 32, well-traveled guest host of TV talk and variety shows, and a caustic, cerebral comic whose free rendering of Bible stories helped bounce the Smothers brothers from CBS; and Judy Marcione, 30, associate TV producer; he for the first time, she for the second; in Manhattan...