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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Jews assailed Superstar, Roman Catholics were mounting an intensive-and remarkably successful -campaign against Maude. At issue were two rerun episodes of the CBS television series that sympathetically portray Maude's decision to have an abortion when she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant. First aired last fall, the shows were attacked by the Roman Catholic press and hierarchy at the time, but with neither the force nor the effectiveness of the current campaign...
...Other Roman Catholic bishops conducted a nationwide campaign to halt local showings of Maude or discourage sponsors from buying time on the show...
...Fascist Italian general is found stiff as a pillar in his Roman...
Cautious though it may be, Peter in the New Testament will strike sparks among both Roman Catholics and more conservative Lutherans. One passage, for instance, suggests that if Jesus really expected an imminent apocalypse, he may never have intended the creation of any "church" at all. And despite the study's conclusion that the New Testament's emphasis started Peter's image on a long "trajectory" of prestige, that will hardly be enough to satisfy the man who now sits in Peter's chair in Rome...
...many ways, Thomas McGuane is a throwback. Though he is just 33, his outlook comes from a time before black humor, the roman nouveau, and the new journalism, when writers and readers believed that fiction was the ideal way to capture the essence of experience. In some respects, McGuane is a literary descendant of Hemingway. Both men are rigorous stylists; for both, reality emerges from careful, linear detail. It has been some time since a writer has acknowledged, as McGuane does, having been influenced by anything of Hemingway's except Death in the Afternoon. Possibly a change of fashion...