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...book, McLennan, one of the inspirations for Rev. Scott Sloan of the Doonesbury comic strip by Garry Trudeau, aims to help people discover religion by leading them through six stages of spiritual development...
McLennan, with his bushy eyebrows, beard and fading red hair, resembles Trudeau's character, who is also modeled after William Sloane Coffin. Coffin was McLennan's mentor and the Yale chaplain while he and Trudeau were undergraduate suite-mates there...
...running back Calvin Hill, a future NFL star and father of Detroit Piston Grant Hill, and Brian Dowling, a quarterback who had not lost a game as a starter since junior high school and would later gain most fame as the inspiration for the character of B.D. in Gary Trudeau's "Doonesbury" comic. A powerful Yale team had defeated an emerging Harvard unit narrowly the year before, setting the stage for a showdown for the Ivy League championship...
...wall potential candidates like Warren Beatty (shades of Ronald Reagan) and light-weight legacies like George W. Bush (we've already enjoyed more than 12 years of insightful depictions of his father in the strip) give us a sense of dj vu and will be a real test of Trudeau's innovative genius...
...have real hope, though, that the less attractive the material, the more Trudeau will be able to turn the farcical into the humorously serious. The collected works of Doonesbury, the only political strip ever to win a Pulitzer Prize, will one day make a great curriculum for a U.S. History class (Watergate, Iran/Contra, Desert Storm, etc.). Over the last almost 29 years, Doonesbury (through Trudeau), tackling such social issues as AIDS, homelessness and education, has put together a visual and verbal compendium of life's great questions and answers: how to treat people justly in a changing society...