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For protean, pug-faced Max Lerner, 57, expressionism is the word. As a New York Post-based columnist, he freely tackles anything-sex, sin, psychology, God, gold, politics. As a U.S. historian (Brandeis University), he refuses to be typed: "In an era of the specialist, I make an appeal for...
But pressure has done nothing to repress his spirit. Cousteau can delight in eccentric garb ranging from crimson sweaters to Russian astrakhan hats. Or he can turn serious, hold an audience rapt as he talks of his vocation: "I used to dream of flying-the classic attempt to get away...
Deification of the Scriptures. Like many another Protestant of his generation, 65-year-old Theologian Niebuhr reacted against the liberalism which ignored church tradition and turned back instead to giants of the past-Jonathan Edwards. Pascal, Luther, Calvin, Thomas Aquinas and Augustine. And while he considered the reform of culture...
Scorpions Too Small. Hollywood's Righter probably owes his vocation to a Philadelphia physician who in 1937 told him he had six months to live (Righter now says he had a "back ailment"). Then a pressagent for the Philadelphia Civic Opera, he moved to Hollywood. Reading about the zodiac...
Knox had yet to feel any sense of religious vocation, but he had more than the nominal teen-ager's attraction to the religious life. At 17 he made a vow of celibacy: "The uppermost thought in my mind was not that of virginity . . . I must have 'power...