Word: franciscanism
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...looked at," says San Francisco Decorator Michael Taylor. Taylor spent a year transforming San Francisco Socialite Mrs. Davies Lewis' drawing room from a masculine retreat with wood-paneled walls and bookcases (the taste of the former occupant) into an elegant, eclectic ensemble. "It is more European than San Franciscan, which is what I wanted," says Mrs. Lewis, who has used Taylor twice before, jokes that she agrees with Taylor on all but one matter. "I don't usually like his price," she says...
...Boston experiment is modeled on Berkeley's pioneering Graduate Theological Union (TIME, Nov. 6, 1964), which was founded in 1962 by four Bay Area seminaries, has since expanded to encompass eleven divinity schools-six Protestant, five Roman Catholic. The Jesuits' Alma College at Los Gatos and the Franciscan The ology School in Santa Barbara are so pleased with the affiliation that they plan to abandon their existing facilities and move to the G.T.U. campus as soon as feasible...
...Francisco, as hymned by the faithful, is not the American Paris; Paris is the French San Francisco. Yet last week even the most ardent San Franciscan had to admit that there was also an uncomfortable similarity between the city's lackluster politics and those of the preDe Gaulle Fourth Republic. As evidenced by the stampede of undistinguished candidates for mayor, San Francisco is in danger of becoming Bathos...
...loyal San Franciscan put it more bluntly when asked to evaluate the candidates. "Do you want me," he asked, "to throw up now or later?" With so many candidates running for various offices and 16 propositions on the ballot, the registrar-of-voters' booklet detailing the issues and candidates is a record 135 pages long...
Robert Nelson, 36, a 6-ft. 3-in. San Franciscan, is a black-and-blue humorist who made one of the comic classics of the experimental cinema. Oh, Dem Watermelons is a daffy documentary about all the horrible things that can happen to watermelons. They get kicked like footballs, gutted like chickens, smashed on sidewalks, slashed with ice skates, riddled by bullets, split open and rubbed over the bodies of beautiful women. The monstrous irrelevance of it all is fracturingly funny-until suddenly the spectator realizes that the watermelon is meant to symbolize the Negro...