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Long-term Recall. The polysyllables of David Susskind, for example, pooled on the courtroom floor, spread to the walls and up to the ceiling, and held the committee spielbound for 210 minutes. In one triple metaphor, he summarized television drama as "celluloid sausage coming down the pike by the ream." Without referring to his own indifferent and unoriginal shows, Susskind estimated that TV as a whole had become "90% travesty, a gigantic comic strip, a huge ho-hum. I tremble for TV as a professional practitioner-as a father-as a citizen...
...honored guests invariably include a pro-Western diplomat (probably an African this year), a clergyman (perhaps Episcopal Bishop James Pike--and then again perhaps not), a retiring administrator (Wilbur Bender?), and a high government official (Dean Rusk...
From some of Protestantism's younger leaders, Dr. Bonnell's thesis evoked a raven chorus of dissent. Commented San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike: "The positive factors listed by Dr. Bonnell are valid, but as a group they don't add up to enough. They are happening, and without them we'd be further behind. But we are losing ground-we aren't even keeping up with population growth...
...hall to heckle, boo, fire loaded questions at the narrator. Praised by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, the National Review, and a number of conservative Baptist groups, Operation Abolition has come in for searching criticism by the Jesuit weekly America, the Protestant Christian Century, Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike. After making its own study of the events, the National Council of Churches urged Protestant ministers "not to exhibit the film unless a full and fair presentation" of all the facts is made...
...idea that some Christian Scripture is mythological rather than historical, though held by many Protestant theologians, has kicked up a flurry of controversy around San Francisco's outspoken Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike (TIME, Feb. 24). The issue has its counterpart in Roman Catholicism. Cautious by comparison with Bishop Pike-who suggests that even the ancient doctrine of the virgin birth is a mythological way of presenting the paradox of Christ's simultaneous humanity and divinity-Catholic proponents of the idea avoid the word myth. But the new view of the Gospels is highly unsettling to Catholic conservatives...