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...MICHAEL NOVAK...
...Michener is the evangelist of sports−Jock Lit's Billy Graham−Novak is the theologian. "Sports is. somehow, a religion," Novak declares, and happily settles down to his priestly duties. Words like "ritual," "legend" and "myth" labor in overtime. "Grace" takes on a double meaning. Old George Blanda is compared to Ulysses as he copes on "the green oval floor of the amphitheater" otherwise known as a football field. The "unforgettable stance and fluid swing" of Joe DiMaggio cannot be celebrated without cosmic theorizing. "Baseball is as close a liturgical enactment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant...
...Audrie Novak Muncie...
...Michael Novak, a Catholic theologian and perceptive analyst of U.S. politics, wrote recently in the Washington Post: "The source of discomfort is that they [Northerners] do not know at first hand the pressures that shaped him, his inner demons and his inner angels. They can't confidently imagine scenarios of various pressures upon him and predict how he will act. He is, from his point of view, an outsider breaking in on their world. But they are, from their point of view, outsiders who can't quite understand what makes him tick...
Married. Kim Novak, 43, sultry cinemactress (Bell, Book and Candle, Picnic); and Veterinarian Robert Malloy, 36, who began taking care of her horses last year; both for the second time; in a mountaintop pine grove near her home in Big Sur, Calif...