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...Fred Spence, 37, who lives in The Bronx and runs a delivery service, "It's just a fad. You stop in a gas station for gas, and the man gives you a flag." He has one on his car window and several in a cigar box on the front seat. In Detroit, a college student explained his windshield emblem: "The police like this sort of thing, and maybe, if I'm speeding and they see the flag, they won't pull me over." Cartoonist Al Capp, whose Li' l Abner comic strips have been waxing increasingly...
...structurally understand it, then I question if there is a black theology. I tend not to think of theology as experience." But Cone, perhaps the most ardent exponent of an uniquely Negro Christianity, does not agree. "I don't intend to let black theology be a passing fad," he says. "Students for generations to come will be talking about it. If any white theologian wants to talk to us, it's on black-theology terms." He contends that black theology should be a theology of revolution "whose sole purpose is to apply the freeing power of the Gospel...
Heroic Notion. The free university movement may prove to be a passing fad, but it has already had an impact on established institutions. Dartmouth has incorporated experimental college courses in black American history, film criticism and the relationship between religion and science in its regular curriculum. St. Louis University gives credit for free university courses in the psychology of social work and the future of Catholic higher education. On its own hook, Brown University recently adopted some of the far-reaching reforms that free universities commonly aim to stimulate. Beginning next fall, a Brown student will be able to plan...
...discussions of it. No sermon topic was more popular; pulpits rang with denunciations from righteous clergymen. Today, one of the chief apostles of the movement, Thomas Altizer, is quietly teaching English on Long Island. The journals and sermons have turned to other themes. Was it just a passing theological fad? A small idea blown out of proportion by pulpit and press? Or a real cri de coeur, saying something valid not only about 20th century man but perhaps about God as well...
...called sock-hop in the dining room. Fernando Gonzalez, scholar-athlete, will provide a lengthy tape of oldies but very goodies for a dance. Ray Orbison and countless other stars will emerge from the tape, and this one's guaranteed to blow everyone's mind. This could start a fad...