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...Young Dutch Jesuits who were popular student pastors in Amsterdam created a stir when they married but insisted on continuing their ministry. The controversy has left the Jesuits in The Netherlands split fifty-fifty between sympathy for the student pastors and sympathy for a growing group of hardline conservatives...
...Gene Hackman) a combative cynic of the open road. Like George and Lenny in Of Mice and Men−rather too much like them, in fact−Lion and Max fall in with each other while hitchhiking on a lonely country road. Max has spent six years in stir at San Quentin; Lion has been at sea in the merchant marine for five, fleeing the strangulating responsibilities of family and a 9-to-5 job. Lion is on his way to Detroit to see his wife and the child she was about to bear him when he took flight...
...LAWYERS: There was a young lawyer who showed up at a revival meeting and was asked to deliver a prayer. Unprepared, he gave a prayer straight from his lawyer's heart: "Stir up much strife amongst the people, Lord," he prayed, "lest thy servant perish...
None of Bernardo Bertolucci's previous films could so stir the psyche. Those works -- including one or two masterpieces -- were, as everyone said, lush and lyrical. They were emotive but they established an aesthetic distance that made them much less immediate than Last Tango...
Even the more important Women's Lib causes, such as abortions on request or the Equal Rights Amendment, fail to stir the black community. To many blacks, explains Jean Noble, executive director of the National Council of Negro Women, "abortion is genocidal, a method of limiting the black population. Muslim groups, for instance, say that the role of the black woman is to produce warriors for the revolution." Of the Equal Rights Amendment, Noble says, "I call it the liftin' and totin' bill. More than half of the black women with jobs work in service occupations...