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...Basque, 1965 and taken from his unpublished novel Answered Prayers, the piece focused on a posh Manhattan restaurant and its haul monde clientele. For his cast, Capote chose some old acquaintances, including Jacqueline Onassis and Sister Lee Rodziwill, former Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland, Heiress-Artist Gloria Vanderbilt, as well as several other real people thinly cloaked in fictitious names. The author likened his gossipy story to a "minor pane" in a cathedral window. But many of his cronies considered it a major pain in the neck and accused Capote of betraying their confidences. "The reaction has been completely unjust," pouted...
...Beene decided that "the most enduring thing, lasting centuries, has been peasants' clothes." The keynote, he says, is "simplicity," adding: "To arrive at simplicity without looking contrived is one of the most difficult things in the world." In Beene's bag are such fashionable women as Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper, Mary Wells Lawrence, Jackie Onassis and Olympia de Rothschild. He designed Lynda Bird Johnson Robb's wedding dress...
...well-bred, expensive (up to $775 for Chanel-type hand-knit suits) couture clothes caught on. American style, as he sees it, "is an aura of comfort, elegance and youth. It's a feeling." The feeling is shared by such customers as Betsy Bloomingdale, Nancy Reagan, Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper, Mrs. Ray Stark, Babe Paley and Mario Thomas, who helped build Adolfo's retail sales to $6 million last year...
...longer. A critical Rockefeller Foundation report to be issued this week documents the fading church-leadership role of the Big Five which have trained a majority of the nation's non-Catholic seminary teachers with American doctorates: the divinity schools at Harvard, Yale, Chicago and Vanderbilt, and New York's Union Theological Seminary. When they and two others* approached the foundation in 1973 about grants, it ordered up instead a thorough study of the seminaries by Theologian George Lindbeck-himself an alumnus of Yale Divinity, where he now teaches-in collaboration with Harvard Social Scientists Karl Deutsch...
Seminary leaders who saw earlier drafts of the report are understandably unenthusiastic, though Harvard Dean Krister Stendahl himself is critical of bland "university theology" that has no roots in religious communities. Lindbeck's Yale boss, Dean Colin Williams, and Vanderbilt's Dean Sallie TeSelle both claim that their schools are striving to preserve various traditions and train church leaders. As for Chicago's Associate Dean Martin Marty, he says his school has little interest in training ministers and thinks his friend Lindbeck "is a little too mournful about the shattering of the stained-glass windows...