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...departures of lay Catholics are less frequent now, but there were many. Some succumbed to what Greeley calls the "meat on Friday"* syndrome: "Once it became legitimate [in 1966] to eat meat on Friday, one could doubt the authority of the Pope, practice birth control, leave the priesthood and get married or indeed do anything else one wanted to," he writes. Although he rejects this factor as a major explanation of the religious falloff, certain Catholics found it painfully real. "Vatican II amazed me," wrote Author Doris Grumbach in the Critic, "because it raised the possibility of more answers than...
Along with the belief in the media cabal and the Jewish-intellectual business conspiracy, Agnew promotes a view of recent history in which the United States' power--and perhaps more important, its image--were sold down the river during the late sixties. Loss of manhood is a frequent theme: the President mourns "the emasculation of the CIA," while Galdari, the sensitive Secret Service agent says, "The American resolve was shattered from within. The political genuises, assisted by the news media, had emasculated the greatest power in the world." Foreigners are especially hard on the country; the prime minister of Singapore...
...perhaps 40 million Protestant Evangelicals, both black and white, and they are the fastest growing element in American Christianity (see RELIGION). They also constitute a natural constituency for Carter, responding enthusiastically to his frequent use of words and phrases that identify him as one of them: love, brotherhood, decency, purity, compassion. His preaching of traditional moral values also appeals to many others, notably blue-collar Catholic "ethnics." Typically, a black clergyman in Philadelphia praised him as a man "with a Bible in one hand and a ballot box in the other...
...talked about the frequent feeling of repulsion after surgery in addition to the problem of sexual adjustment...
After the intermission the orchestra seemed revitalized as they accompanied Sheila Reinhold, a special student, in a stunning performance of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2. Stulberg and the Bach Society nimbly handled the complicated rhythms. Even during tutti passages the group never covered the soloist. Gliding through frequent changes in mood from sad to satirical, Reinhold maintained complete control. She demonstrated an exquisitely pure tone amidst the large intervallic leaps which Prokofiev loved to inflict on musicians...