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General Note: 1962-1975 / "The National Catholic Journal" / Earlier title: Hard Times / Later Title: Sevendays (or Seven Days).

Publication: October 1965

General Note: Marginalia
Editorial:
What's Wrong With the Church?
The World Court and the Great Boy Scout

London: Majestic Beatle Encomium by Terence Prittie

Travel: Marienbad in Cyprus by Gerald M. Feigen

Et Cetera:
Free-Lance Integrationist by Lewis Z. Koch
This Revolting Beneration by Robert McAfee Brown

Letters:
Mostly Scheer Delight
Mulls on Mills
Gossage's Messages
The Peerless Pire

Cover

Pessimist's Guide to the Vatican Council
Prologue
1) 'Mischief' of 1417
2) Prophet of Doom?
3) Puppets of Doom? by James F. Colaianni
4) 3 Views
A Jew's Lament by Arthur A. Cohen
A. Catholic's Foreboding by Edward M. Keating
A Protestant's Disenchantment by William Stringfellow

Centerfold
A Hard Day's Knights by Jonathan Cott

Essays
Journey Up North by Louis E. Lomax
Street Scene Stealers by R. G. Davis
The Human Management of the News by John P. Sisk

Ephemera
Manifesto by Ralph J. Gleason

Books
Simone a Go Go by Nelson Algren
Rynne Gold by Bishop James A. Pike
999-1000 Plus One by Nat Hentoff
Man with the Golden Charm by Ralph J. Gleason
The Poverty of Reform by Paul Booth

Miscellany
A Photographer's Lament by Danny Lyon

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Citation: Ramparts, 421Serial46448. No Date, Jim Dingeman Vietnam Conflict Collection, Vietnam Center and Sam Johnson Vietnam Archive, Texas Tech University, https://www.vietnam.ttu.edu/virtualarchive/items.php?item=421Serial46448, Accessed 27 Jan 2026.

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