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Rabbi Solomon Bernards of the Anti-Defamation League leveled one of the most thoroughgoing criticisms in the Christian Century last month. Bernards questioned the "monolithic undertones of this effort that aims at a completely Christian America." The campaign fostered "triumphalism," he charged, citing one prediction that Christians could convert the entire world within two years. Moreover, mass evangelical efforts inevitably employ "simplistic theology [and] emotional appeals," and tend "to disparage and downgrade other faiths and value systems...
...MYTHS DISCUSSED here are myths of bourgeois culture, and particularly of petit-bourgeois popular culture. Myth, for Barthes, is "true" in the sense that it expresses a real intention or desire, but always distorts it in an effort to convert the intentional into natural fact. Barthes finds several specific processes by which this distortion is accomplished: "The Writer on Holiday," for instance, describes how the romantic image of the writer as "super-human" is given viability by "inoculating" it with a bit of reality--the writer taking a vacation like other mortals. Or, in "The Brain of Einstein," Barthes sees...
Amilcar Cabral, 48, was something of a rarity among revolutionaries-soft-spoken, moderate and a reluctant convert to violence. He claimed to be a friend of the Portuguese, whom he was successfully driving out of Guinea-Bissau, a Switzerland-size chunk of West African swamp and jungle. There was nothing moderate, though, in the manner of his death. Two weeks ago he was gunned down as he walked with his wife and a bodyguard outside a borrowed villa in Conakry, the capital of neighboring Guinea. The bodyguard was also killed; Mrs. Cabral survived...
...Regarding your article entitled "Biological Imperatives": isn't it typical of this society that doctors should convert an infant with deformed genitalia into a female "with the realization that he could never be a normal man." The fact that "she" could never be a normal woman either does not seem to bother the sex experts...
Many of the men at Woodstock are clearly angry at the decision. Himself a convert to the Manhattan experiment, Father Burghardt, editor of the order's prestigious quarterly, Theological Studies, argues that "experimentation with the different life-styles available in New York is indispensable for our students if we are to prepare them for a contemporary ministry. The decision to close Woodstock has been interpreted by many as another sign that the Society of Jesus has lost its great vision, its instinct for leadership, its openness to the world." Second-Year Student Harry Fogarty groused that...