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Anonymous Christianity. In search of meaning, some believers have desperately turned to psychiatry, Zen or drugs. Thousands of others have quietly abandoned all but token allegiance to the churches, surrendering themselves to a life of "anonymous Christianity" dedicated to civil rights or the Peace Corps. Speaking for a generation of young Roman Catholics for whom the dogmas of the church have lost much of their power, Philosopher Michael Novak of Stanford writes: "I do not understand God, nor the way in which he works. If, occasionally, I raise my heart in prayer...
...Hands of Zen. Even when a merger is arranged, success is by no means assured. The new afternoon paper will still face competition from the New York Post, which by cutting down on its news coverage has managed to stay in the black. Hearst and Scripps-Howard expect their new paper to maintain the combined circulation of the existing two papers; yet these papers appeal to two distinct sets of readers. The Telegram is aimed at the commuter from the well-to-do suburbs; the more obstreperous Journal-American, with its line-up of combative columnists, is directed primarily...
...money, we're all right," says one Trib man. Even at the Telegram, where a reporter was recently bawled out for charging 800 on his expense account for 600 worth of subway trips, some reporters are beginning to roll with the rumors. "I tend to let Zen take care of it," said a young Telegram reporter. "It has so far. When I started here, they were talking merger, and they still are. It's like predicting the end of the world. When it comes, it comes...
...Zen. In upholding that appeal, the Iowa Supreme Court relied heavily on the opinion of Iowa State University Child Psychologist Glenn R. Hawkes, who said he had "spent approximately 25 hours acquiring information about Mark and the Bannisters," but admittedly dug up little or no information about the Painters. According to Hawkes, Bannister has become so established as Mark's "father figure" that the odds are "very high" the boy "will go wrong if he is returned to his father...
...regularly teaches a Sunday-school class at the Gilbert Congregational Church." By contrast, Justice Stuart pointed to Painter's seven jobs in ten years, asserted that he is "either an agnostic or an atheist and has no concern for formal religious training. He has read a lot of Zen Buddhism." Though Marylyn is a Roman Catholic, the couple planned to send Mark to a Congregational church "on an irregular schedule." Painter, added Stuart, is "a political liberal...