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...Moynihan would try to tell him Eth-nic-ity, but that's not the answer.) This was Mel Brooks' first feature and it reaches heights Catskillian. Surely if one had the chance to show a class of Martians any ten American comedies, this would be included in the green syllabus because, as Alex Haley might point out, of its roots. Like tumescent udders (ech!) Mel Brooks's toors hang, full of borscht and seltzer while the crazed milkmaids Mostel, Wilder, Dick Shawn and Kenneth Mars squeeze and squeeze and squeeze. So much of the American comic strain flows through this...
This one sounds like a funny course but really isn't, to the surprise of a couple of athletes who took off after a quick look at the syllabus. Course includes a systematic look at states like the blank mind, sleep, dreams, sleep-walking, sleep-talking, sleep-learning and hypnosis. There will be nothing on ESP and just a little on meditation. Assistant Professor John F. Kihlstrom does the honors...
...political science, are invoked and footnoted indiscriminately. Government professor Richard Neustadt's conjectures about presidential power, especially his discovery of the president's power to persuade, glut the book (the manuscript is dedicated to him). And in one oddly placed threepage section we get an introductory American government syllabus including statements on the growth of the imperial presidency, reduced prestige of the cabinet, decline of political parties, weakening of congressional leadership, and nosediving voter turnout. The jargon is stulifying; instead of simply writing that Johnson faced an uphill campaign battle in 1968, she states that "one of the constitutional checks...
...decree that resulted from their concern is no wholesale syllabus of sexual depravities. Instead, it singles out those "erroneous opinions" that Rome considers are spreading and causing confusion in the ranks of the faithful. Three areas of sexuality that have caused particular difficulties for Catholics-as indeed for many other Christians-are given major treatment...
Christian history is replete with bone-rattling documents of theological protest that capsuled the pressing issues of the day: Martin Luther's 95 Theses, which sparked the Reformation, Pope Pius IX's 19th century Syllabus of Errors, and the German Confessing Christians' Barmen Declaration against Nazism. The technique has fallen into disuse, but it was dusted off last week by a group of 18 Christian thinkers of nine denominations. After a weekend war council at the Hartford Seminary Foundation in Connecticut, they joined in a dramatic warning that American theology has strayed dangerously far afield...