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...shallow plot, are all consistent with a vision of Marshfield as a frustrated author given his big chance, but they are unnecessary. Marshfield's anomalous faith gives him a depth, and a dignity, that makes the rest extraneous and distracting. The mediocre sermon early in the month is realistically valid, but artistically wrong. As something written to a preacher in a desert motel, it is revealing and effective. But it is mediocre writing nonetheless, and that is not Marshfield's name on the dust jacket...
Diane Arbus subjected her "freaks" to a glaring white light that revealed every pore and blemish. Her photographs are often cruel but not easily forgotten. Her approach is obviously not the only valid one--sympathy and affection are just as legitimate responses for the photographer to have to his subject as clinical detachment. But Dorfman fails to use her emotional response as a means to create a compelling image and in doing so, fails to fulfill one of the photographer's essential responsibilities...
...with the traditions of Cubism and Mondrian aesthetics by eliminating concrete forms and images from their work. Pollock, for example, is best known for paintings made by squirting paint out of tubes directly onto a canvas on the floor. For him, the act of releasing paint itself constitutes a valid artistic statement...
...Vatican is open to new ideas these days, but some old ones are still nonnegotiable. Among these are the infallibility of the Catholic Church when it defines matters of faith and morals, the exclusive authority of its bishops to teach authentically, and the limitation of valid Eucharistic celebration to ordained priests. Hans Kung, 46, a Catholic priest and professor of theology at Germany's Tubingen University, has long been attacking these beliefs in such books as The Church and Infallibility? An Inquiry (TIME, April 5, 1971). For seven years, the Vatican has been wondering what to do about...
...women in Boston found him guilty of manslaughter in the death of a fetus that he had aborted. As a result of the verdict, the popular obstetrician faces a prison sentence of up to 20 years. If the decision is upheld on appeal and if it is accepted as valid precedent by other courts, many women around the country will be unable to obtain late-term abortions...