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...famed Biblical specialist, Abbé Steinmann wrote several books on the prophets, but in 1961 his Life of Jesus was placed on the Vatican's Index of banned works, and a year later the church forbade him any further Biblical publications. However, Abbé Steinmann remained vicar of Notre Dame...
...that are in fact ugly. The most vulgar financial preoccupation has been made the substance of frivolity: witness the well-paid boor, Allan Sherman. At the same time, there seems to be a process of counter-assimilation (to the extent that a nation's theater and humor are an index of its culture, America is becoming increasingly 'Jewish'). The country is adopting only those strains of Jewish culture that reenforce its own social outlook--substitution of financial concerns for humane ones, the apotheosis of anonymity and conformity--not the traditional respect for scholarship or the attitude toward learning...
Married. Mortimer J. Adler, 60, professor, philosopher, author (How To Read A Book, etc.). lecturer, and compiler of the Syntopicon, a mammoth cross-index of works written by 74 of the world's most important authors on 102 of the world's most important ideas; and Caroline Sage Pring, 26, his former assistant; he for the second time; in San Francisco...
Right now, the newspaper strikes in New York and Cleveland have whetted the demand for TIME, and in the New York City area alone, 50,000 added copies are being sold each week. But TIME's newsstand circulation-always a useful index of a magazine's vitality-has been extraordinarily healthy right along. The December average sale was 28% ahead of December 1961, and each weekly issue since last June has outsold the corresponding issue of the year before...
...stock market last week seemed to have only two gears-low and reverse. As a result it made a lot of commotion but little progress, opening the week at 671.77 on the Dow-Jones industrial index and closing at 672.52. But speeding along in overdrive was American Motors Corp. All week long, AMC stock was on the Big Board's "most active" list; in all, 687,500 AMC shares changed hands, pushing the price 1⅜ points...