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WILLIS'S ANALYSIS of fifties liberalism and its culmination in the secular theology of Harvey Cox and the pragmatic style of John F. Kennedy is right on the mark even as it is somewhat more caustic than either deserves. In The Secular City, Cox carried the theology of Reinhold Niehbur...

Author: By Sim Johnston, | Title: Crucifixion of American Catholicism | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

Smart and fast at its best, Bad Company too often turns arch, and its characters are self-consciously countrified, like admen going to work in bib overalls. Their dialogue has the somewhat disconcerting ring of Huckleberry Finn rewritten for New Yorker cartoon captions. Benton's direction, though, is astonishingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Prairie Dogs | 10/23/1972 | See Source »

Moonchildren is not a faultless play. In structure, it is almost too arbitrary and low-key. But Weller possesses an uncanny ear--just as Catcher in the Rye has become the high schooler's bible of enforced adolescence, Moonchildren could easily become the standard account of our generation's own...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Moonchildren | 5/12/1972 | See Source »

The Knicks' offensive strategy revolves around Lucas, a veteran forward acquired in an off-season trade to take over for injured Willis Reed. Too small to battle under the boards with most other pivots (he gives away 6 in. and 50 Ibs. to Chamberlain), Lucas is a center in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Court Choreography | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

I HAVE ALWAYS been suspicious about sports books. Most of them serve only to glorify sport and perpetuate the looking-glass world myth that surrounds it. Written for the fanatic fan who will devour anything concerning his favorite superstar, the books only attempt to provide an "inside glimpse" into the...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Athletic Pocketbooks | 4/27/1972 | See Source »

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