Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...candidate, and concludes: "If Mr. Nixon can really listen to the diversity of ideas, agonies and hopes in this great and turbulent land, he may yet achieve the capacity to move beyond himself and to serve the nation and the world." Columnist Max Lerner, another longtime Nixon critic, wrote sympathetically that the President-elect "will need all the help he can get from all of us," and proposed that his opponents "meet him better than halfway...
...Catholic crisis has led some thinkers to wonder whether the church is not ripe for the convening of Vatican III. "So much has happened that the fathers of Vatican II could not have anticipated," says Publisher Dan Herr of Chicago's bimonthly Critic, "that another council cannot be delayed." One obvious topic for the agenda would be a new ruling on contraception to reflect the consensus of the faithful. Another, suggests Theologian Gregory Baum of Toronto, would be a definition "of the limits of papal authority and the freedom to be given local churches." It is taken for granted...
Died. Aleksei Kosterin, 72, Soviet writer and critic of the Communist regime; in Moscow (see THE WORLD...
Nettlesome Critic. Instead of investigating its prisons, the government investigated Gandar's sources. One by one, they were convicted of making false statements, on the strength of testimony from a parade of government witnesses -despite a presiding magistrate's suspicions that the witnesses were painting "too rosy a picture" of prison life. Strachan was sent back to jail and served 18 months. With the Mail's informants thus legally discredited, the government finally moved against Gandar, long a nettlesome critic, and against the reporter who wrote the original series, Benjamin Pogrund...
MARY ELLMANN, a free-lance writer and critic married to the distinguished Joyce scholar Richard Ellmann, has written about the sexual analogies that permeate everyone's thinking, much to our tedium. Loosely constructed, confused, unfortunately titled, the book still manages to amuse as it meanders through various conceptions of femininity and their relationship to criticism and fiction...