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Shedding the never-too-convincing guise of folksy preacher and avuncular counselor, he appeared before the TV cameras in the role he knows best-that of the combative, spontaneous, self-assured politician. At the same time Lyndon Johnson came across as an executive ready and willing at last to assert his leadership...
Martin Gopen, the House's Employment Counselor, personifies its style. Short, moustachioed, he covers his genuine feeling for social work with the air of a fast-talking, hard-hitting businessman. As he yells at a group leader for bothering him, Gopen carefully takes down the name of a crippled Puerto Rican who cannot find satisfactory employment. Gopen will see him tomorrow...
...Alice Atwood, is contesting the new will. Also contesting is Miss Atwood's lawyer, Thomas Hart Fisher, who came up with the news that an earlier will had left the estate to him "in grateful recognition of the many years during which he has been my friend, counselor and attorney." Fisher contends that the new will is invalid since Miss Atwood was "in her dotage and senile." De Bella, still a $173.25-a-week Chicago patrolman, is fighting back, but the will is only the last of his worries...
...theologically, Davis proposes a state of "creative disaffiliation"- meaning committing oneself to Christ and Christian values but standing apart from any specific church. Both ex-priests intend to follow an independent path. Kavanaugh, who has technically been on leave from his diocese, will continue to serve as a marriage counselor at the nonsectarian Human Resources Institute in La Jolla, Calif. Davis is now a $16,000-a-year Visiting Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alberta in Canada...
...role of the priest has changed as well: he is less of a judge, more of a counselor. "A legalistic church was very easy," says a Dominican in Seattle. "I could say to a person 'you are wrong,' exact promises from him never to do it again, give him absolution, and slam the sliding door. But that isn't what confession is all about." Theologian James Burtchaell, 33, of Notre Dame, describes the priest's new confessional role as "nondirective counseling," by which he means "not giving advice but helping you talk your way through problems...