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...other side of the ideological divide, Catholicism itself continues to change. Once it used its own secular power in order to frustrate the religious freedom of others. But the bishops of the Second Vatican Council formally incorporated freedom of conscience in modern society into their creed. The Catholic Church now flatly opposes all attempts to compel conformity to religious belief...
...flavor of this play is Tennessee Williams in a mildewed tea bag. The setting is a dilapidated gingerbread boathouse in Lebanon, Mo. The time is 1944 or, more pertinently, the limbo of time wasted. The heroine, Sally (Trish Hawkins), is 31, and a Wasp whose real creed is to suppress emotion in gentility, a twin sister to Alma Winemiller of Summer and Smoke. The hero, Matt (Judd Hirsch), is a Jewish accountant from St. Louis, a bachelor of 42 and one of life's perennial Gentleman Callers...
...quietly, we act," he says, reciting the creed of the world of small cells, aliases and coded contacts in which he operates as a contact man between political and military units. He is impressed by the heavy arms he now sees coming into the country and by the openness with which freedom fighters walk about, even in the urban townships. He boasts: "There is no doubt that we are winning. The people think we are winning. The army thinks we are winning...
That sort of dilution of the Freudian creed is already far advanced, and some critics predict that classical psychoanalysis will soon be extinct. The 1976 survey by the American Psychoanalytic Association showed that 70% of its members' patients were already receiving some kind of therapy other than psychoanalysis. Since there is no agreement on what works, Freudians?along with neo-Freudians, psychologists, counselors and Pop therapists?are all increasingly eclectic, borrowing bits and pieces of one another's methods. Even at hospitals still dominated by Freudian theory, psychiatric residents now get far more training in neurology, biochemistry, hypnosis and behavior...
...this." The other important task of the time is to change the old, pointless images which hamper expectations and hopes. When we remove the stigmas which bar the realization of dreams, then the inner soul will flourish in a body of meaningful literature, regardless of sex, color, or creed...