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...churches, he said, seem to be frantically searching outside themselves for cultural and ideological refuges. The liaison with Middle America having gone sour, they are seeking out the youth culture, the black culture and romanticized versions of Third World cultures. "If there is any stance that has marked the Christian community in recent years, it is that of listening," Berger maintained. Listening in order to understand others is fine, but too many Christians are "listening to an entity known as 'modern man' in the expectation that thence will come the redemptive word." This kind of listening is demoralizing...
September-Pauline Kael writes for the other half-year. Her long liaison with Director Mike Nichols has been extinguished. (When his pictures open, she still steps aside for a more objective critic...
...trade as Books-Do-Furnish-a-Room Bagshaw. Pamela is backing a gifted, eccentric writer in the magazine's stable, X. Trapnel, to the extent that she leaves Widmerpool and moves in with him. Ultimately she destroys him and returns to Widmerpool, while the intrigues surrounding the liaison cost Bagshaw...
...hearings on the revised welfare re-form bill supported by the Administration. Says New York's Senator Jacob Javits: "Sure, there is always a touch of arrogance. But it is not empty. He's got something to back it up that commands respect." Richardson revamped the congressional liaison staff and spends more time than Finch did in coddling Congressmen. When differences crop up, they tend now to exonerate Richardson and attribute the problems to White House demands...
Ellsberg did finally get to Viet Nam ?as a member of Major General Edward Lansdale's senior liaison office of elite intelligence agents. Later he was put in charge of evaluating the new pacification program for the U.S. embassy. In this sensitive post, Ellsberg traveled all over Viet Nam, had access to the highest civilian officials and saw the ugliest face of the war: the corruption, manipulation and terrorism on both sides. He must have also seen more than his share of civilian casualties, for it was the Vietnamese victims that eventually came to plague his conscience. Still, while...