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...true. Activism is in retreat within America's "name brand" churches [May 28]. Denominations are retrenching. But to interpret the defeat of Eugene Carson Blake for Moderator of the United Presbyterian General Assembly as a repudiation of the '60s is to misunderstand. That same assembly deplored the continued bombing of Cambodia and Laos, supported the boycott of lettuce and grapes, and returned the U.P. Church to the Consultation on Church Union. Marks of an era not wholly spurned...
...Naked Night. During a single day's action, we see the owner of an impoverished travelling circus and his mistress, the bare-back rider, each trying to betray the other. The film (whose original Swedish title means "The Clown's Evening") is Bergman's first masterpiece. Many people interpret it as being totally pessimistic, but its ending (the pair walking in silence alongside the caravan) and the memories of the clown, Frost (in the flashback near the beginning and when Frost relates a dream at the end) point to the life-giving power of resignation and companionship...
...expectation of my recovery from physical or mental disability, I request that I be allowed to die and not be kept alive by artificial or heroic measures." Although these wills help alleviate the burden of deciding exactly what the patient desires, physicians must still take it upon themselves to interpret the "expectation of recovery...
...which most of Salome's efforts to communicate her observations and ideas are met, her exuberance and unkillable gratitude to Freud are hard to understand. And yet Freud does evince genuine affection for his eager pupil, perhaps because, refusing to take her seriously intellectually, Freud can in no way interpret her as a threat...
Karl Marx is alleged to have said, "Philosophers have attempted to interpret the world, but the point is to change it." He did not say that philosophers have attempted to understand the world--for understanding the world implies criticizing previous interpretations--which is the prerequisite and springboard for action. Hence, we can conclude that the effectiveness of action for the enhancing of blacks is directly proportionate to the quality of knowledge and understanding on which that action is based...