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"I have been driven many times to my knees," Abraham Lincoln once admitted, "by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go." Jonathan Livingston Seagull clearly speaks to some kind of need in America for words of inspiration that do not instantly turn to ashes on the tongue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Bird! It's a Dream! It's Supergull! | 11/13/1972 | See Source »

As a boy, Marjoe maintains, he could not have been held accountable for his acts, although he admists never to have believed at any time in the truthfulness of what he was doing. The movement attracted him with its glitter and the limelight t assured him. What Marjoe does not...

Author: By Peter M. Shane, | Title: Hallelujah | 10/5/1972 | See Source »

There followed stand-up comedy dates at New York City nightspots and 25 appearances on the Tonight Show. Steinberg also cut two records featuring the offbeat brand of Old Testament humor that had become his trademark. "My sermons strike out in all directions," he says. "At the prophets, at myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Star of David | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

An impression of raffish knowledgeability is what a writer tries to establish when he lists his accomplishments for the inside back flap of his novel's dust jacket. It is thus very good to be able to put down, as Novelist Barry Hannah did on the jacket of Geronimo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Faith and Good Works | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

No suspicious secularist would be reassured by Buechner's working habits. He lives in a comfortable white frame house on an unfarmed farm in southern Vermont. For discipline, the author knots on a necktie and travels a few miles to an office in the parish house of the Manchester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Faith and Good Works | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

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