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...vivid camaraderie. There was, as well, a sort of collective separation anxiety-a strictly modern malaise that occurs when a place newly spoiled by celebrity is suddenly disconnected from the media's great glory machine. Lake Placid's inevitable plunge began when TV and the whole journalistic shebang unplugged itself and disappeared...
...such incendiary treatises as the bestselling American Freedom and Catholic Power (1949); in St. Petersburg, Fla. A third-generation clergyman and twin brother of Philosopher Brand Blanshard, Paul was a Congregationalist minister before deciding that "Christianity is so full of fraud that any honest man should repudiate the whole shebang and espouse atheism instead." His broadsides against the church's "authoritarian control over the minds of men," something he equated with Stalinism, and its "unAmerican" involvement in the affairs oi state education later found echoes in federal bans on prayer in public schools and aid to parochial schools...
...courtesy he had invited Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker, a Republican, to join him on the plane. When reporters asked Weicker about Kennedy, he replied that all Republican officeholders were hoping that Carter would head the ticket. Said Weicker: "If Kennedy runs in Connecticut, he threatens to take the whole shebang with him. He would win in a landslide." Complained White House Press Secretary Jody Powell of Weicker: "Courtesy is a two-way street. I always thought that anyone who was born rich would also have been brought up with some manners...
...greedily. Many have become all but addicted, refusing to go places that are not air-conditioned. In Atlanta, shoppers in Lenox Square so resented having to endure natural heat while walking outdoors from chilled store to chilled store that the mall management enclosed and air-conditioned the whole sprawling shebang...
...Morse Auditorium, 602 Commonwealth Ave., in Boston. But if Bucky's whole holy holism really excites you, you can spend $25.00 to attend one of the seminars the luminary will produce at the Science Center at Harvard over the weekend, or $60.00 to attend the whole three-night shebang. Call 9654491 for further details about the weekend seminar series, entitled "Being with Bucky...