Word: novak
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...book that the Class of '68 does not read very much is the Bible; by and large, graduates dismiss institutional churches as irrelevant or unimportant. Nonetheless, Roman Catholic Philosopher Michael Novak of Stanford thinks that there may be "more religion among students who now act on their conscience than among those who sit in church every Sunday seeking to be blessed." The Protestant dean of chapel at Stanford, the Rev. B. Davie Napier, enthusiastically endorses this year's seniors, who, he says, "embrace an authentic, courageous morality that sees obscenity where it really is?in all schemes that thwart...
...their beefs about Bobby, however, the press seemed to feel he had a fair chance of wresting the nomination from Johnson. But by week's end, some were beginning to have doubts on that score. Columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak noted that Bobby was in danger of losing the youthful support he has so assiduously cultivated because he had toned down his revolutionary rhetoric. The Kennedy campaign organization in Washington, reported New York Daily News Columnist Ted Lewis seemed to reflect hesitant middle age rather than headstrong youth. "One gets the feeling in the Kennedy operating centers here...
...Steps of the Pentagon" is a true nonfiction novel. Mailer is eminently a novelist and eminently a journalist--he is remarkably accurate at being both. The combination is a daring achievement. Novak and Evans or Knebel or Galbraith write novels based on contemporary journalistic events, but they are related to their own reality as science fiction is related to science--a fantastic but logical extension of reality. What Mailer achieves is a deep personalization of the event. And his success as a journalist can be attributed to his talent as a novelist. As he writes of himself...
Other guests are Richardson Dilworth, former mayor of Philadelphia; Kenneth Clark, author of Dark Ghetto; and Robert Novak, a political columnist and co-author of Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power...
...HOLLYWOOD STARS OF TOMORROW (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Gene Kelly presides over this 15th annual contest, in which ten starlets compete for the title of "Hollywood Star of Tomorrow." Past winners: Raquel Welch, Sally Field, Carol Lynley, Kim Novak...