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During most of next week you many enjoy skiing vicariously in the warmth of your own room. Many of the major skiing events of the Winter Olympics are being televised. So forget the frozen feet, score legs and runny nose, and tune in to Channel...
...Cologne Opera's Istvan Kertesz, 38, an unspectacular Hungarian, restricts himself to beating a steady rhythm with his right hand while flicking unobtrusive signals with his left-yet he radiates authority. His solid reputation as a traditionalist does not diminish the currents of conviction and warmth that he stirs into a composition. Armed with a wide repertory, he is equally effective in music as dissimilar as Mozart and Bartok...
...President Johnson demonstrated something more than a presidential duty. He showed that warmth and friendship can play a part in international politics. Can a mourner lessen one's grief? Perhaps not, but for some inexplicable reason he helps somehow. He doesn't do anything, he's just there, that...
...hippie faith as a genuine spiritual impulse. "Hippieness has all the marks of a new religious movement," writes Harvard Theologian Harvey Cox, in, of all places, the current issue of Playboy. "It has its evangelists, its sacred grottoes, its exuberant converts." He suggests that the hippies' quest for warmth and love is a warning to Christianity. Other churchmen quite rightly question the spiritual validity of an undigested mixture of drug-induced visions, skimmed Orientalism and nature worship. Even Cox concedes that the hippies' "confused and eclectic" theology contains "very little corrective to just plain self-indulgence...
...find no definite correlation between certain psychological types and civil rights activists. Rather, he feels that it was some interaction between person and situation that determined what form behavior took. What raises Coles's book far above the level of an interesting series of case studies is the warmth of tone, the freedom from specialist jargon and the understanding of differences. Although he is a strong supporter of civil rights, Coles also shows great respect for the traditions of the South...