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...before Blake's ecumenical dream becomes a reality. Although the delegates in Dallas were committed to merger, many privately wondered whether their churches were willing to make the surrender of power and principle that the union will demand. "The man in the street is for church union and motherhood," said President Ben Herbster of the United Church of Christ, "but when union means giving up St. John's down there by the gas station, that may be another matter...
...last man tip the last hat please stand up?) At least on the surface of U.S. life today, it is difficult to find any institution or idea that people dare uphold primarily in the name of tradition-not God, not country, and certainly not Yale, not the sanctity of motherhood or of private property, not even baseball, the automobile or psychoanalysis. As U.C.L.A. Sociologist Ralph Turner put it, only half in jest: "A tradition is something you did last year and would like to do again...
...night before experienced his first baffling encounter with sex. He is also the central figure in this stunningly perceptive, crisply humorous novel. In his first book A Long and Happy Life, Reynolds Price told the amusing tale of Mile's gangly pretty sister, Rosacoke, who resorted to motherhood to win her laggard suitor. This novel takes the Mustian family back a dozen years or so. It is more richly textured, more artfully woven than A Long and Happy Life, subtly fabricating a world of startling and compelling beauty. The book is "a Southern novel" in the sense that...
...Motherhood, God, Americanism, and George Chuvalo, the Brian London of the Western Hemisphere, will try to wrest the heavyweight boxing title from world champion Muhammed Ali in Toronto tonight. Las Vegas bookmakers rate Ali the eight-to-one favorite...
...million), and the highest total stock value ($31 billion) of any firm listed on any exchange. So many of those shares are owned by widows and elderly couples that the FCC attack on "Ma Bell" has stirred up the same sort of popular resentment as an assault on motherhood itself. "I have stacks and stacks of letters from people asking, 'Why are you trying to get A.T. & T.?'" said a top FCC official last week. Congressional mail was running the same...