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Novak's concerns, though, are not strictly limited to Catholicism. Along with many other Americans who spurn the apathy that grew out of the affluence of the 1950's, he is searching for a national purpose. As he says, his book has two aims: "the recovery of the sources of our inner life" and "an ever more accurate assessment of our changing external life." Here he echoes the liturgy of liberalism, not Catholicism, but with a special twist. He asserts that Catholics have much to contribute to liberal causes. "When Catholics become alive in America, the moral revolution ... will...
...ominous warnings were made public the Humphrey Bogart Festival opened at the Brattle. The report says that by smoking we may die, but Bogart shows in film after film that without smoking, it is impossible to live. While the ego may heed the Surgeon-General, the libido refuses to spurn the Bogart Mystique. The tobacco companies tell us we are misinformed; there is no choice but to round up the usual suspects...
...first the townsmen spurn the offer and stand behind their popular fellow-townsman, Ill. By the end of play they will accept it. Ill himself is terrified at the beginning that he will eventually be killed for the money. He forgets his fear, however, and calmly awaits the death he is cynically certain will come...
...commuter services, he would pay them $1,000 each. How to identify all those eligible to collect? Says Maidman: "The conductors know all the commuters on the line." At week's end, a poll showed that six out of seven of Maidman's persistent commuters planned to spurn the $1,000 and continue to bump it on the Susquehanna...
...Spoor & Spurn. What is most striking about Buchan's heroes, for modern readers at least, is their now archaic innocence and idealism of word and deed. Modeled on Buchan's Oxford friends and fellow World War I officers, they were created in a time when aristocratic and gentlemanly virtues were still fashionable and younger sons sought fame at the four corners of the world. For them, the trail of anything, even an idea, is always a "spoor." Girls, when they appear, and they appear seldom, are customarily wholesome and boyishly slim. Men are lean...