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...Ward Stevenson, a senior vice president of Hill & Knowlton Inc., public relations agency in Los Angeles: "Nixon made a bad mistake by surrounding himself with lawyers and admen. If they had been p.r. men, there would have been no Watergate coverup. We preach admitting mistakes, getting the facts out and the bad publicity behind us. I would encourage a voluntary appearance before the Senate committee, and regular press conferences...
There was a time when playwrights did not damn the world or preach to it, or try to save it. They simply savored the champagne fizz of its worldliness...
Neither an especially gifted singer nor a talented actor, Alice Cooper nonetheless has become the darling of the pubescent set by such gruesome antics. His show represents an updated version of Saturday afternoon at the horror movies. Says Alice: "All we do is project fantasies. I don't preach. The only message is 'here I am and what are you going to do about me?' I'm sort of a spit in the face...
...WORDS: I once knew this preacher back home who liked to use words that he sometimes didn't quite understand. One time he brought in a visiting preacher, and after introducing him to the congregation he told him to preach loud, "because the agnostics in this church are not very good...
...fascination with other worlds-astrological, metaphysical or religious-and summoned to confront the concrete issues of this one," wrote Cox, a professor of religion at Harvard Divinity School. His call for social involvement was a capstone to decades of religious this-worldliness. Ever since Theologian Walter Rauschenbusch began to preach his social gospel at the end of the 19th century, there had been a growing feeling in U.S. Protestantism that religion was not a thing of pious Sundays but of vigorous, shirtsleeve weekdays. Many Roman Catholics and Jews were also trying to involve their churches and synagogues more directly...