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CANADIAN Jesuit Bernard J.F. Lonergan is considered by many intellectuals to be the finest philosophic thinker of the 20th century. This month, 77 of the best minds in Europe and the Americas - critics and admirers, Protestants, Roman Catholics and agnostics - gathered to examine Lonergan's profoundly challenging work at rural St. Leo College near Tampa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Answer Is the Question | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Society's interpretation of Mikado is thoroughly inspired. The musicians, the singers, the staging, all capture the essence of Gilbert's wit and Sullivan's score as few local productions ever have. The producers have pooled some of the finest talents on the Harvard campus-members of the Band and the HRO as well as seasoned G and S personnel...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Operettas The Mikado at Agassiz Theatre April 17-19; 23-25 | 4/18/1970 | See Source »

...those losses was to Harvard, 6-2, when the Crimson played probably its finest game of the year. Another outstanding performance will be necessary today if Harvard hopes to improve on its 11-2 record...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Harvard Faces Strong Springfield In Toughest Challenge of Season | 4/16/1970 | See Source »

...those who missed the festival feel as if they were there. Those who actually were there will see it even more intimately. But Woodstock is far more than a sound-and-light souvenir of a long weekend concert. Purely as a piece of cinema, it is one of the finest documentaries ever made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hold On to Your Neighbor | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

With a zealot's burning eyes and a full beard, he encouraged comparison with artistic notions of Jesus; yet he found Christianity a perversion of man's finest instincts. "My great religion," declared D.H. Lawrence, "is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect." But his books are models of calculation, the grown-up products of the scholarship boy who was a great exam taker. Although Lawrence celebrated the phallus and sang of the masculine principle, his every work is marked by an almost feminine hysteria that nags as it argues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quartet of Soloists | 4/13/1970 | See Source »

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