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Sociologist Thomas Luckmann of Frankfurt University predicted that eventually the categories of "belief" and "unbelief" will disappear. "A particular form of religion, institutional specialization, is on the wane," he contended, and as it goes, the distinctions between believers and nonbelievers will fade. One type of person will then evolve his private set of ultimate values; another will find that he can express his best through one of the churches that remain. But Luckmann warns that the surviving churches must understand their true role: not to command belief but to help each person articulate his beliefs from within himself...
Personalities will fade into the background this afternoon, however, as the Eagles tangle with Temple College in an effort to win its 20th straight victory. The 19th win was a come-from-behind 73-61 triumph over Army Thursday night. Temple edged Tennessee, 63-58, to earn the right to meet...
...Walls allows one indistinguishable chapter to fade into another. The story becomes a deja vue recounting of yet another round of position papers, unsure negotiations, and Rudd's explitives. The magnified detail often amuses--the story relates solemnly in a footnote how one of the authors was mistaken for an SDS negotiator and was handed a piece of rope. He hid it, he records for history, under a pile of monographs where it was soon forgotten...
...Possible Fade-Out. Even if the FCC does not entirely get its way, the prospect is for a long and noisy congressional battle, probably resulting in more restrictions on the promotion of cigarettes. The tobacco industry spent $225 million in radio and TV advertising last year-about 10% of network revenues-and the possibility of a forced fade-out makes broadcasters extremely unhappy...
However, five minutes of nipples and mouths could easily have been condensed to one, keeping the audience in touch with the context. Instead the audience sits bored-except for Miss York's beautiful and exposed chest--by the tameness of the sex, and tensely awaiting the fade-out to signify.... Suddenly Sister George walks into the room and the thread of the story is picked up with a thunderclap, rather than merely resumed with the more usual "fifty minutes later" effect...