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...right at the time when he seemed close to achieving the synthesis of jazz, swing, and blues that possessed him during the latter part of the group's history, Butterfield dissolved the band and departed from the musical world to drive stakes in the green pastures of Woodstock...
...wonder boy, who quarterbacked hard, studied hard, gentlemanly bedded down the cheerier cheerleaders, and won a football scholarship to Columbia. I visited him once after I left school. He was still living with his elderly parents in a small apartment, and he was having trouble. He told me that Woodstock had changed his life--he didn't pick fights anymore, and he talked to people, but he hated Cherry Hill. Jim couldn't really express what he was going through; he had always lived according to the dictates of better rock music, and I didn't know how deep...
FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI has fallen victim to the youth movement. In an attempt to tell the story of St. Francis of Assisi as a medieval eccentiric. Zeffirelli runs the risk of presenting the saint as a progenitor of Woodstock nation. His film succeeds in tracing a parallel between then and now, and thereby fails to become an acceptable work of art. At a time when hard-boiled movies are derigeur, a film on a religious theme can appear embarrassingly sentimental. Zeffirelli's has personal interpretation of the St. Francis legend does just that. And at a time when "Godspell" has recently...
...many in recent years that the newspaper of the society's Oregon province has a feature headlined DEATHS?LEAVES?DEPARTURES. The emigrants are not merely from the ranks, either. U.S. Jesuits who have left have included such eminent names as Theologian Bernard Cooke, Maryland Provincial Edward Sponga and former Woodstock College Rector Felix Cardegna. In addition, the number of new recruits has plunged, especially in developed countries. The U.S.?the society's largest national community with 6,600 Jesuits?used to get some 350 novices each year; now it is down to fewer than...
...Conwell of Washington State's Gonzaga University suggests that educated Catholic laymen could take over much of the Jesuits' role as educators. Arrupe has shown a willingness to let a few "good things" die, notably two of the nation's five Jesuit theological schools?one of them the famed Woodstock College (TIME, Jan. 22). Still, it is a difficult idea for some of the world's best educators to accept...