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Moral & Misanthrope. The new songs are shapely and graceful, but their simplicity is deceptive. Several of them are suffused with religious feeling-a sorrowing series of meditations on the Christian ethic, outlined in a language that is close to simplistic. One, The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest, is a parable on temptation: Judas lures Jesus into a bawdyhouse, where he dies. "The moral of this story, the moral of this song,/Is simply that one should never be where one does not belong." I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine, an easygoing paraphrase of Joe Hill, becomes a jeremiad...
...anyone think that this trend heralds the demise of the dreary situation comedies, ABC's Leonard Goldberg explains that, given the voracious rate at which TV eats up material, "the series will always be the backbone of the TV industry." It hardly matters that, short of featuring a priest on a pogo stick, there are not many plots left beyond The Flying Nun. Producers of westerns have learned that a good way to save on dialogue is to let each of the "ride-bys"-the good guys chasing the bad guys-run on for an extra 20 seconds...
...Hindu mysticism; its followers peruse the writings of a gallery of gurus, ranging from the popular Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (TIME, Oct. 20) to Swami A. C. Bhaktivedanta of Bengal. A third source of spiritual insight is Zen Buddhism, as promulgated by Oriental Scholar Alan Watts, a one-time Anglican priest who lives on a houseboat in San Francisco...
Essential to Integrity. Since Bartsch admitted that he had told a priest of the first killing, letters have poured into German newspapers, protesting that had the confessor not remained silent, the three other boys might be alive today. Nonetheless, Catholic priests and Protestant ministers have overwhelmingly defended the priest and confessional secrecy. On purely practical grounds, they contend, the secret confession probably prevents far more crimes than it hides, by providing an emotional outlet for disturbed persons...
Married. James Kavanaugh, 38, dis illusioned Roman Catholic, ex-priest anc author (A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church); and Patricia Waiden, 35, a San Diego nurse; in an Episcopal ceremony; in La Jolla, Calif