Word: theorists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stand-up sermon, many church men agree, is a dying art. But what should take its place? According to Dominican Father Anthony Schillaci, the answer is the mixed-media homily. A colleague of Communications Theorist Marshall McLuhan at Fordham University, Father Schillaci presented his vision of the sermon of the future to a meeting in Toronto last week of the Catholic Homiletic Society. "If you see anything you don't like," he calmly warned the audience, "boo or hiss or knock the guy next to you off his chair. This is intended to stir up all kinds of emotions...
Effort V. LSD. The second year went much more smoothly, largely because the dissident teachers, led by Political Theorist Norman Jacobson, decided to bow out. By then, students were beginning to find that Tussman's insistence on turning on by hard intellectual effort was more meaningful than tripping out on LSD. "That second year was exciting," recalls Arthur Schmidt, 20, who is now a junior studying anthropology. "There were times when people were just exploding with ideas." Even some who deeply resented Tussman's no-nonsense ways eventually came close to idolizing him. "He is an authoritarian with...
...Democratic Governor Richard J. Hughes, 58, resting at Philadelphia's University of Pennsylvania Medical Center after surgical removal of a cataract in his left eye; Comedian Bert Lahr, 72, rallying at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center from severe pneumonia that put him in a coma; Communications Theorist Marshall McLuhan, 56, also convalescing at Columbia-Presbyterian after removal of a benign growth near the brain...
...Dick Gregory. When they seek a religious figure, campus organizations think first of two unconventional Episcopal clergymen: the Rev. Malcolm (Are You Running with Me, Jesus?) Boyd and Bishop James A. Pike. Among academics, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith this year seems to be slightly more in vogue than Communications Theorist Marshall McLuhan...
Second, it appears to us that there is a contradiction between Huntington the political theorist and Huntington the Vietnam expert. As Vietnam expert he is impressed by the recent elections and by Nguyen Cao Ky's political antics. As theorist he has warned against confusing superficial signs of democracy with real political development. Americans, he has written, in their search for political stability in emerging nations tend to resort to military strong men or the formal device of elections instead of building a political party, the only truly solid political institution. Will the Saigon junta ever allow the creation...