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...remain a mere holding action until many more affluent Americans feel the dirt, know the hurt and get mad enough to fight. Last week a group of 100 unimpoverished individuals paid $45 each in tuition to learn that motivation. The educational effort was the work, appropriately enough, of a Franciscan priest who sent businessmen, skilled laborers, housewives and church workers into the slums of one of the nation's otherwise most serenely sunny cities, Phoenix. The Rev. Gavin Griffith, 31, ran his poverty war college with the strategic aim of simply stirring the conscience of his students. Some...
...deeply committed to some new form of humanism that has yet to reveal a clear pattern in the wreckage of the old. The worn coin of alienation is still legal tender, though it appears to be passing into more active hands. Says Robert Haas, a 27-year-old San Franciscan whose poems gracefully bridge the concerns of traditional techniques with the growing influence of forthrightness and social consciousness: "It became clear to me that alienation was a state approaching to sanity, a way of being human in a monstrously inhuman world, and that feeling human was a useful form...
Strawberry Ice Cream. There is such a thing as too much pot, and such a thing as getting "stoned" on it. Stoned on alcohol, the ordinary social drunk can become maudlin, irrational, incoherent and perhaps physically ill. A smoker who has had too much pot, says the San Franciscan, tends to become "quite anxious, overly self-conscious and very ill at ease. These are usually intensely personal discomforts that are hard to articulate, but they are usually short-lived-say, two hours long at the most. I have had very moving illusory experiences under pot too. These aren...
Overnight, a small tent city of sympathizers sprouted around the gas station, which became a sort of shrine. A Franciscan priest celebrated Mass there each evening until last week, when Chavez, more than 30 Ibs. lighter-he went without food for four days longer than Gandhi during his 1924 hunger strike-ended his fast...
...battle heightened, Los Angeles Catholics began choosing up sides. Public manifestos of support for the nuns have come from the recently formed Los Angeles Association of Laymen, 29 Jesuits from Loyola University, and ten priests and brothers from the city's Franciscan Theological Seminary. A rival lay group, affiliated with the conservative National Federation of Laymen, rallied to Mclntyre's cause. Worried about the developing schism, 28 other Loyola Jesuits asserted that the support voiced by their 29 colleagues for the sisters "does not represent the entire religious community at Loyola," and suggested that judgment not be made...