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FOUR men spend a weekend eating themselves to death in a grim, overdecorated mansion: the conceit has the imprint of an allegory by Bunuel, the echo of wild house parties in Italian movies of a decade ago, the teasing metaphysics of a "Last Year at Marienbad." Four men tied to a brotherhood pact that tests endurance --the premise is also a kinky Continental variation on "Deliverance...
...durability and consistency, no editor of national magazines excels Norman Cousins. He has not only survived 38 years in a highly competitive field; he has stubbornly insisted that his publications reflect his own tastes. The latest venture to bear his imprint is Saturday Review/ World, a combination of two former Cousins magazines. On the evidence of the first three biweekly issues, the total product may well turn out to be better than the sum of its parts...
...generally believed by Constitutional experts that Nixon will have trouble defending his refusal before the Court--even though the Court is one which bears his firm imprint and has supported him on many previous occasions...
...thin. The Congress Project's relative unsuccess, in fact, may have stemmed directly from Nader's inability to personally supervise the work of the young researchers who put it together, and signs of less than meticulous research have crept into other studies that bear the Nader imprint. All of this gives his critics hope that some day Nader may make an irretrievable mistake-but they are still waiting...
DESPITE their talent as missionaries, the Jesuits have left their imprint most deeply on the culture of the West. Now, not so much as missionaries but as citizen Christians, they are making a mark on a major culture of the East−that of India. "If India is today in some degree Christian, it is because of the Jesuits," says Father Theo Mathias, S.J., head of the Roman Catholic education organization in India. The 3,100 Jesuits in India constitute the third largest national contingent in the society after the U.S. and Spain, and fully 2,600 of them...