Word: rankness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, in a tedious attempt to fill their repetitive pages with news, the rock press every three or four months chooses some musician to elevate to the rank of "superstar." People such as the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, James Taylor, the Cream, and Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young have been accorded this dubious honor, but none has displayed much real staying power. Hendrix and Joplin shuffled off their mortal coil after three albums apiece, and none of the rest of them has been able to do anything exciting since each of their second records. A new Lennon Harrison, Dylan...
...quite deliver on the promise of an "exciting new world of television." They did, however, amply demonstrate both the exhilarating possibilities and exasperating problems of public television. HOLLYWOOD TELEVISION THEATER, an occasional PBS special in the past, emerges this fall as a weekly feature. It capitalizes on first-rank actors who are between movies. Last week's premiere featured Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach in Murray Schisgal's The Typists, a talky tragicomedy about two white-collar mediocrities spilling out the empty cup of their lives. The high night of the season should come next month with Jack...
...They Rank. That immediately raises the question of doctorates from church seminaries. The seminaries may be fine for pastors and church workers, Welch thinks; people who want to teach religion should study only at the very strong seminaries, or those tied to universities...
Welch's list of "First Rank" schools provides no surprises: Chicago, Duke, Harvard, Princeton Seminary, Vanderbilt, Yale, and the Columbia-Union Seminary combine. He downgrades as merely "Marginal" the doctoral programs at eight church seminaries, among them the only Lutheran, Episcopal and United Church of Christ programs and two of the three Presbyterian ones. He also gives a Marginal rating to the programs at Fordham, Temple, U-C Santa Barbara, Saint Louis, Southern Cal, Catholic University and Drew University...
...Maurice were first-rank Forster, it might have bridged this gap. As it is, for a book whose theme is liberation, it is a curiously willed performance. Forster for once displays a one-tract mind. He does not commit anything as crude as a case history, but he flogs the narrative along in a straight line largely unadorned by the surprises and ambiguities that enrich his other plots. Boy meets boy, boy loses boy, second boy meets girl and takes up "normal" life, first boy meets another boy and affirms homosexual values in the face of hostile society. A prim...