Word: berrigans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Upper West Side, housed the studious here, the activists there. Beards and long hair vied with modest sideburns, turtlenecks and slacks with cutoffs and bare feet. Some places became crash pads and beer-and-coffee houses for local activists (a number of the Woodstock Jesuits were active Berrigan antiwar allies). More than a few of the many visitors were young women. But the surviving Jesuit colleges are not that much different. Their seminarians live fraternity-style in neighborhood houses or apartments, receive monthly checks just as those in Manhattan do, come and go as they please. What Woodstock lacked, though...
...precarious edge of the reader's tolerance, never quite falling off. For whenever the author leans too far in the direction of obscenity-which is frequently--he bounces right back with a metaphor or reference to feed any appetite Jackie Kennedy and James Joyce. Cyrano de Bergerac and the Berrigan Brothers. While Mays and Richard Wagner all raise their heads at one point of another in the parenthetical Who's Who that attends this narrative...
...January 19 demonstration will begin at the Park St. subway station at 11:30 a.m. Protesters will then march to Government Center for a rally where Rev. Phillip Berrigan will speak...
...coffee-house theologians, and all the things which play such a critical role in his analysis. It is only by "going underground" that we can achieve genuine spiritual experience which will in turn lead to a critical and prophetic attitude toward the evils of this world. For Wills, the Berrigan model of the Church is the best...
...roads." Reformers of the past-from Savonarola to John Henry Newman-suffered or were silenced in their time but eventually prevailed. "It has always been the task of the prophetic church to redeem the kingly church," Wills concludes. "As Pope Innocent needed St. Francis, Paul VI needs Dan Berrigan...