Word: clergymen
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Rudofsky, in fact, builds a whole disquisition on forks into his exhibition. Condemned as "devil's paws" by 15th century European clergymen, forks are such a fixture in 1980 America that there is even a stop-go one on the market, with flashing red and green lights to indicate when it is time to take another bite. Some Fiji Islanders, according to Rudofsky, eat everyday fare with their fingers and reserve forks for formal dishes roast of human flesh...
...appearances of people: the restless, the desperate, the shifty-eyed, the rowdy, the stupid, the tough, the stubborn, the stoned and the drunk. He listens to the beery yarns, life histories, and why-we-came-to-Alaska expoundings of a motley assortment of fast dealers, Dangerous Dan McGrews, crazed clergymen, plain folks, hippies keeping warm and dry and happy snorting cocaine, bartenders, flinty newspaper editors, pipeline workers, various well-and-not-so-well-intentioned politicians, naturalists and whores. All of them seem to lean close and talk confidentially to McGinnis the outsider...
Only a few years ago many of his listeners probably would have agreed. Religious pronouncements on American political issues go back to the founding of the colonies. In the 1960s, many clergymen lobbied for civil rights laws and against the Viet Nam War, but they were mainly liberals. With some notable exceptions-Prohibition was the most conspicuous-religious conservatives have shunned politics, believing that the way to create a moral society was to evangelize individuals...
...others in the Boston area were upset with Medeiros for having crossed the line between church and state. When Worcester's Monsignor Leo Battista and 29 other Catholic clergymen asked Drinan to withdraw his endorsement of Frank, the priest refused. He warned the hierarchy that it risked damaging the church by involving itself in the race. Said he: "The authority of the church in parts of this district is dreadful...
...women's movement, for example, has opened up studies that are not merely ideological fads (which they sometimes are), but new regions of historical perception. Ann Douglas' brilliant book, The Feminization of America, suggests that a 19th century alliance between sentimental female writers and clergymen dominated popular culture and created "the passive consumerism and anti-intellectualism which characterize mass culture." Carl Degler's At Odds fascinatingly traces the decline of the patriarchy and the liberalization of the family from the Revolution to the present. Many of the new social views of history amount to cultural anthropology Some...