Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that may, however, be just a primary and shallow impression. The people who run the Superdome tastefully avoid talking on and on about its sheer size and assiduously avoid crass comparisons between the Superdome and the Astrodome or the new domed stadiums in Seattle and Detroit. The Astrodome came first, of course, so that may contribute to the Superdome people's reluctance to talk about it, but that's not really the point...
Gutiérrez and many other Latin American liberation theologians journeyed to Detroit last week to argue that their theology has a prophetic role in northern industrial societies. Sounding a recurrent theme, Peruvian Economist Javier Iguiñiz told an opening session at the conference that "the growth of capitalism is the same as the growth of world poverty." Uruguayan Jesuit Juan Luis Segundo, author of one of the movement's key works, A Theology for Artisans of a New Humanity, warned that the church, if it is to have any validity, "must become a function of liberation...
...Graduate Theological Union says that there are elements of selflessness and idealism in the U.S. tradition that could be used to inspire Americans to "fight for structural reforms [that] most would call revolutions." But the blacks, feminists, Chicanos, American Indians and other North American minority groups at the Detroit meeting suggested that a different sort of tradition would be involved. Said Chicano Nun Maria Antonia Esquerra: "The theology of liberation in North America will be written by the oppressed...
...Europe as a trendy "new 'consumer good' in the theological market." But those who espouse it so far do not seem to be faddists, and they do not expect instant change. If anything, liberation theology may well be just too demanding to become a fad. Said one Detroit participant, Beverly Harrison, a professor of social ethics at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary: "The liberal in me wants a different world, but the liberal in me also wants that world without changing myself, and without pain." This common, human contradiction, as much as some oppressive system...
Goons threw acid on the owner of a truck stop outside Detroit for displaying the magazine. A stopover in eastern Ohio was blown up for featuring it on a newsrack. Gunmen shot out the gas signs of a stop in Indiana and threatened worse if the display rack did not go. When it comes to circulation, Overdrive magazine has had some unique problems. They are the price that the muckraking journal, which calls itself the voice of America's independent truckers, has had to pay for documenting corruption in the trucking industry. In the past three years alone...