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...witches. But the scene is visually uninspired and mechanically clumsy. Faces and images swirl up out of the hags' cauldron, spin about, dissolve, disappear, as if in some hybrid of hallucinogenic nightmare and the kind of antique special effects that looked awkward over 25 years ago in Hitchcock's Spellbound...
Northwest Airlines Flight 305 began as the most prosaic of milk runs. It started in Washington, D.C., at 8:30 a.m. last Wednesday, with scheduled stops at Minneapolis, Great Falls and Missoula, Mont., Portland, Spokane and finally Seattle. What happened en route rivaled Alfred Hitchcock's more baroque fantasies. In the most elaborate skyjacking ploy in the bizarre history of air piracy, an inconspicuous middle-aged traveler identified on the manifest as "D.B. Cooper" extorted $200,000 from the airline, and apparently foiled any plan of capture by parachuting to safety over southwest Washington State...
...precisely this point where Hitchcock's analysis stops. Although he concedes that Catholic radicals are now beginning to rediscover the working class (like their brethren in the New Politics movement), he dismisses this as the same sort of fadism which led his villains to endorse psychoanalysis and the Poverty Program in the middle sixties. In fact, Catholic liberals are going through a kind of radicalization, which may well force them to go beyond fadism. This summer, for example, Michael Novak, a radical Catholic journalist who is a key villain in Hitchcock's analysis, wrote an article for Harper...
Above all, Hitchcock's analysis suffers from his failure to take a closer look at much of what is going on in radical theology. He looks instead at radical journalists like Novak and Daniel Callahan and magazines like Commonweal. These are, to be sure, good indicators of what radical Catholics are thinking about. They are not substitutes for analysis of theology itself. What is significant about radical theologians like Jurgen Motlmann (a Protestant) and Johannes Metz (a Catholic) is that they rely very heavily upon the Gospel in their analysis. Hitchcock simply dismisses their quest...
...have any future, these are the people who must make up its constituency. Religion, as Marx pointed out, is the cry of the oppressed creature. But it need not be a cry of powerlessness. Jesus' message was for the poor, and it was a call to strength. Hitchcock has correctly perceived the elitism which has characterized much of the activity and belief of the Catholic Left. This criticism, however, is not the type which will kill radicalism in the Church. In fact, an era of real Catholic radicalism may be just beginning...