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NONFICTION 1. Our Crowd, Birmingham (2) 2. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (1) 3. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie (3) 4. A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh (4) 5. Twenty Letters to a Friend, Alliluyeva 6. Incredible Victory, Lord (5) 7. Anyone Can Make a Million, Shulman (6) 8. The Lawyers, Mayer (9) 9. At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends, Eisenhower (7) 10. Happiness Is a Stock That Doubles in a Year, Cobleigh...
Speaking to a student group at the University of Notre Dame, Father Kavanaugh, whose A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church (TIME, July 7) has sold 140,000 copies, announced that he had submitted his resignation from the priesthood to his bishop, the Most Rev. Alexander Zaleski of Lansing. "I'm tired of beating my head against the wall," Kavanaugh said, explaining that his resignation was a protest against the failure of bishops to enact the reforms proposed by the Second Vatican Council...
From a distance, the current Greek government looks like a comic farce. The ruling colonels are a parody of the modern military regime: right-wing officers bow out to reactionaries; one purge succeeds another until there remains only a core of deeply paranoic rulers with a dramatic flair for secret police and censorship. Combining the absurd and the petty, the Greek colonels prohibit political talk in private homes, and deprive Melina Mercouri of her citizenship. Puritanical instincts have prompted them to ban mini-skirts, long hair, classical Greek plays, and to declare compulsory church attendance...
...quarter of a century of change in the life of a Jewish family near Warsaw in 1863. If the time and plot sound remote, the theme is not. The central character is a kind of petit bourgeois Job who has to endure the special ordeal also known to the modern family man: he is condemned to watch his children depart, with brutal casualness and indifference, from their upbringing...
Calman Jacoby begins as a simple, God-fearing small businessman. As a result of various political and social upheavals, he winds up an industrial entrepreneur. The children, as usual, go modern in their own ways. One of Calman's daughters commits the heresy of an interfaith marriage. A son-in-law, fascinated and undermined by science, moves toward that 20th century religion-substitute, psychiatry. The son-in-law's sister moves to the city and turns into a forerunner of the Career Girl...