Word: revs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rev. Donald G. Lothrop will detail 30 years of government spying on his activities in the peace and civil rights movements in a lecture at the Morse Auditorium, 602 Commonwealth Ave. in Boston at 11 a.m. The lecture will be entitled "What...
...cloth intrigued by that figure was the Rev. J. Russell Hale, a professor of church and society at the Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pa. Hale, 58, decided to try to find out why so many people prefer to be unchurched. Doing so he logged 30,000 miles by air, auto, foot and boat, even visiting almost inaccessible "hollers" in West Virginia and a topless bar near Sarasota, Fla. He lived for a month in each of six counties ranked by Glenmary as among the country's most irreligious.* Though social conformity makes church shunners tend to keep their views...
...churches realize that explicit sexual material has been creeping into network programs for several years. But Soap is regarded as a key test case. The Rev. Everett Parker, media watchdog of the liberal United Church of Christ, calls the program "a deliberate effort to break down any resistance to whatever the industry wants to put into prime time." Says Wall Street Media Analyst Anthony Hoffman: "Soap is a stalking horse. If it is a success, everyone will want...
...page textbook that accompanies the course contains thoughtful assessments of unstated TV-show presumptions and subtle moral issues often ignored in the sex and violence v. censorship debates. In one essay, the Rev. William Fore, communications director of the National Council of Churches, discusses messages directly or subliminally being transmitted to masses of TV viewers. Among them: the good are usually weak; power is good, even if you have to be evil to get it; happiness consists of limitless material acquisition. None of these views are new or wholly inaccurate, but pervasive repetition of materialism and situation ethics, churchmen argue...
When he isn't steering the government, Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, 47, likes to rev up engines and tinker with antique cars. Even now he is busy restoring one of the three venerable Lancias that he keeps on his sheep ranch in Victoria. His latest plan was to drive a 1933 Alfa Romeo in a four-lap vintage-car exhibition at Melbourne's Sandown Park-but at the last moment he changed his mind. Instead, togged out in a powder blue racing suit and goggles last week, he climbed beside three-time World Champion Jack...