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...protean, pug-faced Max Lerner, 57, expressionism is the word. As a New York Post-based columnist, he freely tackles anything-sex, sin, psychology, God, gold, politics. As a U.S. historian (Brandeis University), he refuses to be typed: "In an era of the specialist, I make an appeal for the vocation of the generalist...
...conscientious Catholic must regard it as a sin "to vote for a Catholic candidate merely because of his faith . . . Catholics are bound in conscience to vote for the candidate whom they consider best suited for the office, whatever may be his religious affiliation...
...stage is not courage, excitement or hope. It is not even honest despair, which can be the beginning of fortitude. It is a kind of bored preoccupation with familiar vices, treated with tabloid sensationalism, or written off in psychological clichés, but too rarely measured against sin and salvation, human striving and human failure...
...gist of Dakin's argument is that Tom "is not a 'dirty' writer," that he is really turning out "morality plays." Exposure of Sin. Head on, Walter meets skeptics who find mostly corruption in his brother's work (see above...
...sister-in-law (A Streetcar Named Desire), homosexuality (Cat, etc.), cannibalism (Suddenly, Last Summer), garden-variety adultery (Orpheus Descending) and castration (Sweet Bird of Youth} may not be radiant with uplift, but "there can be no valid moral objection to the exposure of this sort of sin in human nature." The only Tennessee Williams product ever condemned by the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency, Williams' brother points out, was the film Baby Doll, and the problem there lay more in Hollywood than in Tennessee: the long, "morally offensive" seduction scene between Carroll Baker and Eli Wallach was played...