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...love--are each immured in a prison of words. Marchbanks, an intruder into Morell's apparently idyllic Victorian home, attacks the vacuity of the parson's Christian Socialist platitudes; but his own endless flights of romanticism are no better. Both forms of verbiage are equally foolish--and equally valid. Neither is, in Auden's words, "a way of happening," let alone an incitement to change...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: The Meek's Inheritance | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

...fundamentally irreligious society through a religious haze. The lines that emerge as the play's philosophical premise--"So man created God. What for? To see limits on himself."--never become very meaningful or especially convincing. Nonetheless, on opening night one could extract a snippet, albeit strained, of still-valid revelation from the Ex's proficient production... When the cast shared apples from the Tree of Knowledge with the audience, somebody murmured amid the general crunching, "It's delicious...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Seeing is not Believing | 10/23/1976 | See Source »

...Christian duty to do so. Opening the Ford headquarters in Augusta, Me., Mike graciously dismissed the criticism of Carter's lust-in-his-heart remarks in Playboy. "It was just an honest expression of his human nature," said he, adding that the interview was not a valid campaign issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: It's a Clash of the Clans | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...annual dues starting at $660) and does not demand a blue-blood test of applicants. Nowadays, as the eminent Virginius Dabney, retired editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch (and a member of the club), puts it, "an interest in tennis, golf, swimming, bridge or fiscal solvency is a more valid qualification than one's birthplace or forebears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: The Good Life | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...option is that the committee decided to offer again this year an option called "Fiction"--one which many feel has nothing to do with developing expository writing skills. "We had a fight at a faculty meeting about teaching this creative writing course--one which I don't think is valid," Robbins said. Byker responded with three reasons why he thought "of the two anomalies" in the expository writing curriculum, the fiction course is a more suitable offering: it had a longer history, more demand, and a full-time teacher...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: Scuttling Journalism at Harvard | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

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