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...effect, the fringe benefits that modern ministers get no longer come from their positions as church leaders but from their rough equity with the rest of society. On the way out with the discount is a nostalgic custom that dates back to the days of the U.S. frontier-but going with it is a practice that bespoke a general public guilt over paying preachers too little to live...
...Your cover picture of McGeorge Bundy in front of the Great Seal of the U.S. [June 25] is, as is your custom, pregnant with significance. Mr. Bundy seems to be trying to bend his head so that it covers up the warlike spears in the eagle's left claw and only allows the olive branch of peace to show. But his deception is not successful; the arrowheads show through. Perhaps we would be better off if Mr. Bundy either let us see the entire situation or got out of the picture altogether...
...over the two-mile course Friday afternoon rather than on Saturday with the rest of the regatta, presents the second most serious challenge to the Crimson. Yale has been taking this race very seriously, and has had the combies working out with their own coach--a departure from the custom of doubling up combies and freshmen...
Sexually repressed, still beautiful and inflexibly virtuous, Tula (Aurora Bautista) becomes a spinsterish "Aunt Tula" to her dead sister's small son and daughter. As decreed by custom in a stifling provincial town, she takes the bereft children and her handsome brother-in-law Ramiro (Carlos Estrada) under her roof. She rejects another suitor to fulfill what she sees as her duty, but cannot admit that Ramiro attracts her. Secretly she pores, moist-lipped and breathless, over a packet of impulsive love letters he wrote to her sister years earlier, yet is offended when the man himself appears...
...names, the gestures, are meaningless pressagentry. All you really have to do is shake your hips a little and then, as Sybil Burton puts it, "dance to suit yourself." Dancing to rock 'n' roll has become such a private reverie, in fact, that a partner, except in deference to custom, is not necessary. And that is its great attraction. Since couples neither touch nor even look at each other, all the shyness some men and women have about dancing?clammy hands, missing a beat, stepping on feet, etc.?is removed and, as one club owner says, "Everybody goes...