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...that in my judgment, often fallible, they were making a mistake." The board did not agree. In response to the atmosphere created by Watergate, the rule was laid down to keep congressional reporters from being (or seeming to be) too cozy with business or Government. Says Hearst Correspondent Pat Sloyan, a retiring board member: "It's the appearance of the thing. We're talking about a propaganda arm of the U.S. Government...
...James J. Sloyan, as Daniel Berrigan, hovers around the trial like a director stepping into scences at a rehearsal to set them in order. He plays a fine Father Dan, a quick, impish man with almost perfect self-knowledge whose impious sense of humor makes his testimony even more telling when that humor disappears for a description of the horrors of the United States air war on Vietnam. Sloyan slipped on a few lines in the first-night performance, but he never dropped his role as the poetic activist guiding an adamant but occasionally confused group of Christian radicals through...
...N.A.B. is further distinguished by its concise, straightforward style. The Rev. Gerard Sloyan, chairman of the religion department at Temple University, who edited the New Testament, feels that its vocabulary is richer than such popular-level volumes as Good News for Modern Man or the 1958 J.B. Phillips translation. Still, the language does not "fly as high" as that of the New English Bible, and Father Sloyan admits: "It may be said that, being American, we have done the lowbrow thing...
...break loose?" Now she says, "Tell me how you may be bound so as to be kept helpless." In the N.A.B.'s New Testament, the account of Paul's trip to Rome (Acts 27) turns out to be a brisk, realistic shipwreck saga. Too many Bible tales, Sloyan says, had become "sublime accounts more befitting gods than...