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Excess of Bureaucrats. Within the church, the mysterious process by which bishops are chosen has recently come in for some sharp criticism. Many Catholics feel that priests and laymen should have at least some indirect say in electing their bishops; others feel that the present system produces too many brick-and-mortar bureaucratic conformists and too few spiritual leaders with real pastoral qualities. Aware that the system needs updating, the U.S. hierarchy last April agreed to set up a special commission that would screen candidates proposed by all bishops. Some U.S. bishops-among them Bishop Clarence Issenmann of Cleveland-have...
Some of the best of them are the work of Manhattan Director Howard Zieff, 40, a short, hyperactive man with a zany sense of humor and an apparently limitless imagination. He is the leading practitioner of what the trade calls the indirect sell: the product is visible and so is the pitch, but the commercial zings across chiefly because it is entertaining and refuses to take itself seriously. To dramatize Braniff Airways' airfreight division, Zieff shows a man crated and shipped by air, arriving at his destination with not a hair out of place. For Whirlpool household appliances...
...even resolving to wage total war under some set of conditions poses moral problems. Although I admit numerous doubts, I feel it may even be wrong to participate actively in the creation of improved instruments for waging total war. And my work on this volume certainly constituted participation, however indirect, in the creation of such instruments...
...relatively few, noisy disciples of McCarthyism created a highly inaccurate picture of the place of patriotism in the U.S. and gave it a bad name. The truth is that most Americans are casual patriots most of the time. Whatever national loyalty a man feels is indirect, the product of satisfaction with his job, family, friends, union, church, country. If asked what other country he might prefer, he draws a blank. Rarely have Americans hated America enough to commit treason, renounce citizenship or denigrate their country while abroad. Saul Alinsky, the professional agitator, says with some surprised self-analysis...
...Real Estate. Early in his reign, Mahendra decided that a country just awakening from the somnolence of the Middle Ages and still 93% illiterate needed strong leadership from the throne. In 1960, introducing Pakistani-style "controlled democracy," he abolished political parties, put the election of the legislature on an indirect basis and clapped potential troublemakers in jail. This has left him free to emancipate women and untouchables, end polygamy and begin breaking up Nepal's feudal estates...