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Under the general title, "The Secular Search for Religious Experience," Cox's lectures will include "The Immolation of History," "Ecstatics and Visionaries," and "Christ the Harlequin...
...said his talks will concentrate on the "sensibility of contemporary secular man." Since that sensibility is "very much influenced by visual popular culture, to talk without doing would be contradictory--like Marshal McLuhan writing books about how books are a thing of the past," he added...
...churches" of Africa and Asia want the council to take a strong stand on such questions as economic "colonialism" and nuclear armaments. But the numerically potent Orthodox churches of Eastern Europe and the Near East, says one council staffer, "don't give a hoot about secular problems...
...punctuation marks; even the sleeping seamen below would walk in their sleep for the nearest editor. The strange thing is that through the dreadful indiscipline of the prose, or perhaps because of it, the innocence of Kerouac is established beyond question. Alas, in literature, as in all other secular endeavors, innocence is not enough. The reader is left with the uneasy feeling that Kerouac's pilgrimage should have brought him to an understanding more profound than the discovery that "all is vanity...
...roots of the quarrel go back to last fall, when the sisters, who have 182 teachers in 35 of the archdiocese's schools, approved a number of experimental changes in their rules-most notably the right to wear secular clothing, including skirts and blouses in classrooms. Mclntyre, an archfoe of Catholic renewal, let the sisters know that unless they modified the reforms they could no longer teach in his schools. The nuns refused, on the ground that they are directly under the jurisdiction of the Vatican, and last month sent an open letter to parents of parochial-school children...