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...LAUGHS. "You don't really call that a job. I don't really have a name for it. If I come up with one, I'll let you know. Some people like to earn their money that way, and I say hooray for them. It's not my type. My mother was a Baptist...
...movie opens with a rasping fanfare, a blast from an old record of Hooray for Hollywood. It very neatly sets the tone for this travesty of Raymond Chandler's superb novel about honor and friendship, two subjects among a great many that Robert Altman cannot bring himself to take seriously...
...Hooray for Eleanor McGovern [Oct. 9]! At last there could be a woman in the White House who is willing to stand up and be counted for what she believes, who is capable of discussing issues and who would be more than a china-doll First Lady. How interesting to contrast her style with that of Mrs. Nixon, who can say after a cross-country trip that she didn't see any problems...
...Hooray for "The State of Union" [Oct. 9]! Since World War II, America's liberal Protestant seminaries have been ignoring parish churches and their pastoral needs. Conservative evangelical seminaries have expanded to train the parish ministers that Union, Yale, Chicago, Harvard, et al., refuse to supply. Money for these institutions is therefore predictably drying up. And the teachers' "barrage of debunking and skepticism," aimed at students who already are startled when someone inquires, "Don't we begin with a prayer?", is completing the ruination of liberal Protestantism...
Last week Judge Turner surprised almost everyone when he finally ruled that the children should remain. Vlasta reported her brother's reaction: "Yippee! Hooray! We're going to stay." The judge denied that his decision was politically motivated and declared that the mother is "intelligent and probably sensitive." Claiming what to skeptical observers seemed like an extraordinary degree of psychological insight, he added: "My observations in the past six weeks just confirmed what apparently she is; she finds it difficult to express warmth and feeling. I'm sure she's got them -maybe...