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Behind the Times. The volume and scope of the reform proposals suggest that the Jesuits, traditionally the church's intellectual avantgarde, may have fallen a bit behind the times. Some members of the society freely admit it. "It's not that we've lost luster," says one prominent U.S. Jesuit theologian, "but others have made advances." The Jesuits can still boast proudly of having some of the church's brightest intellectual luminaries, ranging from such heady European theologians as Karl Rahner of Germany and France's Henri de Lubac to California's James Arenz...
...Both in Latin America and the rest of the world, the new pro-democratic policy will not have the luster of idealism that might have covered American intervention if the new policy had been followed from the beginning. Instead, Johnson's motives will appear merely power-pragmatic: The rebels in Santo Domingo defied the American military force, and Johnson decided it would be more expedient to deal with them than to destroy them. Thus the U.S. will get no credit for a good policy, while it was legitimately blamed...
FAREWELL RECITAL (RCA Victor). Barred because of race from Washington's Constitution Hall 26 years ago, Marian Anderson was cheered by nearly 4,000 devoted fans last fall when she opened her farewell tour in the big auditorium. Much of the luster and steadiness are gone from her voice, but she still sings Negro spirituals and Schubert Lieder with touching directness and passages of beauty...
...four years since John Cowles Jr., 35, succeeded his father as editor of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, he has added luster to the family name and papers. Intense and Harvard-educated, he also helped vitalize his community, led the campaign that raised $2,300,000 to build the handsome new Tyrone Guthrie repertory theater. Last week Editor Cowles branched out, geographically as well as culturally by acquiring a half-interest in Harper...
Atop Tokyo's National Stadium, the Scoreboard flashed one last message: SAYONARA WE MEET AGAIN IN MEXICO CITY, 1968. Darkness fell, the Olympic flame flickered and died. There was nostalgia, but no regret, no fear that reflection would do anything to dim the luster of the XVIII Olympiad. For in 15 wondrous days, 6,600 athletes from 94 nations had tumbled, leaped, twisted, soared and splashed to a kind of special immortality...