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Daniel Maguire, theologian, Marquette University, and a former priest: There is a certain amount of what I call "Italianization" going on in this country. The Italians have always tended to wear their Catholicism somewhat loosely. They identify with it, but they are selective in what they take seriously. In America, Irish literalism and doctrinal rigor is yielding to a kind of Italian, easygoing selectivity...
...there persist in America two vestigial strains of anti-Catholicism. One is the old and somewhat fading nativist variety -the sort that led the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod in the past year to reaffirm its opinion that the Pope is the Antichrist. The second strain, considerably more disturbing be cause it is so much more "respectable," is the bigotry practiced by certain intellectuals, liberals, humanists and elitists...
...ignorance of her true situation and, in her innocence, exploited. There is also some rather ugly background information that leads one to believe that Housekeeper Frey may be a good deal more psychotic in his motivations than the movie cares to admit openly, while his male companion may be somewhat more than charmingly antisocial in some of his. The movie is, finally, quite dishonest: an antibourgeois tract that is far from forthright in admitting where it's coming from or what it's aiming at. When the chuckles die, what remains is an uncertain moral and a certain...
Howard is clearly unhappy with that possibility. For the true villain of his book is a criminal-justice system that fails to protect society from its marauders. There is, however, another villain in Zebra - one that Howard somewhat slights. In concentrating on the crimes, hideous as they are, he does not really grapple with the social ecology that may drive ill-educated, rootless men to acts of such brutality. Still, Howard's pronouncement echoes like a scream on a dark street: "California [has] a bad habit of letting its convicted killers out to kill again...
Cornell relies on a powerful running game to cover for a somewhat suspect passing attack, and the Big Red strength--including Dick Clasby Jr., son of the outstanding Harvard Hall of Fame athlete-will run up against a Crimson defense that is in the Top Ten nationally against...