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...most part, these intellectuals have confined their criticism of liberals to the secular area. Andrew Greeley, the Chicago priest-sociologist who is proud to be an Irishman and a friend of Mayor Daley's, has broadened the attack to the religious front. "Let us be clear at the beginning: this is a volume of dissent," he says in Unsecular Man. "It rejects most of the conventional wisdom about the contemporary religious situation." The conventional wisdom he rejects is the "pop-sociological-religious analysis which has become part of the American intellectual preconscious...
...Greeley believes that "the basic religious needs and the basic religious functions have not changed very notably since the late Ice Age." He argues that the technopolitan secular man, the hero of religious liberals of the early sixties, the man who had "come of age" and was too tough and self-sufficient to feel a need for religion, exists only on certain Ivy League university campuses. You won't find him in Kensington or South Boston or Queens...
...revolution. The prophets at the "great secular universities" believed that history was clearly heading in one direction, that the human race was becoming more and more enlightened through the centuries, and that with this enlightenment would come a new maturity which in turn would make religious myths unnecessary. Hogwash, Greeley argues from Nisbet History shows change to be discontinuous, discreet and non-directional. Neither gradual "enlightenment" nor the loss of the need for myth is inevitable, Greeley says...
...important check on the big banks' expansion policies could come in the next few weeks, when the Supreme Court is due to rule on a landmark case involving an offer by the First National Bancorporation Inc. of Denver to buy the First National Bank of Greeley, Colo. The Justice Department is opposing the purchase. It argues that by buying an existing bank instead of starting one, the holding company offers customers no new choice and could eliminate "potential competition" at some later date. The lower courts have ruled that present antitrust legislation covers only actual competition, and found against...
Senior defensive end Mike McHugh was named recipient of the Frederick Greeley Crocker Award for "initiative, perseverance, courage, and selflessness." The award is the Harvard equivalent to a most valuable player prize...