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...Jesus is to be demoted from the Godhead, what faith remains? The authors do not want the sort of vague Christianity without Christ that Unitarianism has become since it dropped belief in the Trinity. Wiles sees two possibilities. The "stronger form" would avoid metaphysical claims about Jesus but insist that "his life and all that has stemmed from it" are essential to human faith. The "weaker form" would simply recognize the "contingent historical fact" that faith "came alive through the figure of Jesus" for those raised in Christian cultures. To another of the authors, Michael Goulder, a tutor in theology...
...Lance's assets include his closeness to President Carter." Continued Glenn: "None of us can answer that. I will skip that one." So it went for two hours and ten minutes, with Lance beaming broadly. Finally, Florida Democrat Lawton Chiles declared that the committee was giving him "our sort of Good Housekeeping seal of approval." It was clearly a reprieve for Lance, but not the final verdict. A more thorough probe of the Chicago loan by the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency may be completed by the end of this week...
Panting Philosophy. In the beginning it was called Beatlemania. Today it is called Beatlemania. The phenomenon, moreover, now laced with wistful nostalgia and what passes for a sort of panting social philosophy, far transcends the domain of disk jockeydom and bedroom stereo. Would anyone in his right mind pay $17.50 for a ballpoint pen bearing the emblem of Grand Funk Railroad? In Atlanta, Beatles' pens are fetching that much-and even a kid with only 25?can acquire a Beatles bubble-gum card. Not to mention the lapel buttons, rings, mirrors, metal trays, T shirts and posters that variously...
Psychedelic Statement. If this were all, Beatlemania might be dismissed as an ingenious multimedia ripoff. But Producer Steven Leber, 34, who thought the whole thing up, and his partner David Krebs, 37, both successful rock impresarios, have tried to make some sort of psychedelic statement. "What this show really is," says Krebs, "is a panorama of changing forces within American society. In the '60s, what Bob Dylan said, what the Beatles said, really set the tone for kids in terms of drugs, obedience to authority, war, parental guidance. Not that everything they said was right. But that...
Feldman does not yet have Brooks' sure ability to touch and goofily transform each and every cliche base on which his chosen model rests. Around the middle of this picture, energy flags and a sort of desperate silliness begins...