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...message of universal morality will be embraced by many who fear an encroaching secularism. In a speech delivered to a Catholic group earlier this month and reprinted in the Focus section of the Globe, Massachusetts State Senator William M. Bulger attacked the "fiery evangelists of the Age of Aquarius who would have us 'do our thing'--whatever it might be." Bulger further warns that Catholicism is under attack and that "the teachings of our church are ridiculed in every form of communication...
Shaped by the Age of Aquarius, they are a different breed...
None of which signals the dawning of the Age of Aquarius. Israel is nowhere near meeting Syria's demand that it get all of the Golan back. On the issue of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, there is a wide gap between the Israeli proposal for an "administrative" council and Palestinian demands for a "legislative" body, an embryo parliament for a Palestinian state. But gone are the days when, as Palestinian delegate Ghassan Khatib puts it, "proposals were prepared for confrontation, not agreement." Propaganda ideas are yielding to suggestions that might be negotiable. Someday. Maybe...
What's that again? Love? Caring? But how can the Age of Aquarius be descending upon corporate America, flooding boardrooms with 1960s-era flower children, when retail chains are closing hundreds of outlets and major firms laying off thousands of employees...
...Woodstock, N.Y., became the symbol of the Age of Aquarius when it lent its name to a three-day love-in and rock concert featuring, among others, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Arlo Guthrie. Though the festival was ultimately held 50 miles away, Flower Power devotees and New York City weekenders have since flocked to the once quiet community. But as Woodstock (pop. 6,800) has grown, it has run into some of the fiscal problems facing other towns and cities. Among them: paying off an $8.5 million debt to the local sewer district...