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...firm; actually it is a winning combination at Stanford. Inspired by Presbyterian The ologian Robert McAfee Brown and Roman Catholic Philosopher Michael Novak, religion has become one of Stanford's most adventurous intellectual disciplines, and Dean of the Chapel B. Davie Napier has turned the once staid services at the pseudo-Roman esque Memorial Church into a continuing experiment in worship. The result is an enlightening case study of how Christianity on a secular campus can be imaginatively brought to life...
...drastic change in newspaper styles can be traced directly to the Yugoslav Communist Party's plain and plodding official newspaper, Borba. Five years ago Borba founded the tabloid Vecernje Novosti (Evening News), and the new paper has grown more popular as it has grown brasher. Soon the staid morning daily, Politika, got into the act with its own tabloid, Politika Ekspres. Literary quarterlies and enter tainment weeklies followed suit. Now, from the Moslem regions of the deep south to the neat towns of the Austrian border, Yugoslavians are enjoying their cheesecake as never before...
...blindfolded Frank landed between two names, top level conferences were convened. Cries of "Dysfunctionally on the line!" and "Policy decision!" reverberated through the staid hall. About halfway through, someone noticed that the backs of the sheets were also filled with names. But then Frank couldn't see anyway. "I didn't take Stat 123 for nothing," he said...
Astounded Wellington. In the handsome, hilly, normally staid city of Wellington, the President found that he was indeed regarded as a friend. There was some razzing from Viet Nam protesters; and the BOBBY KENNEDY FOR PRESIDENT banners that were to plague him throughout the area-including a huge one draped on a mountainside outside Wellington-began appearing. But the enthusiasm of the lunch-hour crowds that stood six and eight deep along Customhouse Quay and Lambton Quay outweighed the undercurrent of dissent. If the reception delighted Johnson, his reaction astounded New Zealanders, who are accustomed to the aseptic pomp...
...servant. Dance buffs will get their chance in two weeks when the park's Shakespeare troupe, now in its twelfth season, yields its stage to a nine-day festival of ballet, ethnic and modern dance. Hoving's hoopla has perked up the park's staid old standby programs too. When he staged the Goldman Band's opening as a Gay Nineties costume party with 5? beer and hot dogs, 35,000 people turned out, giving the band the biggest audience of its 49 seasons. Other orchestral fixtures in the park, catching a spillover interest from Philharmonic...