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...last June's Supreme Court decision outlawing the Regents' prayer in New York public schools were Jewish; such organizations as the American Jewish Committee and the New York Board of Rabbis enthusiastically endorsed the ruling. Last week, in an editorial addressed "To Our Jewish Friends," the Jesuit editors of America impetuously warned that conspicuous Jewish opposition to religious practices in public schools might lead to "an outbreak of anti-Semitism." The editorial contended that "certain spokesmen and leaders in the Jewish community . . . are now taking steps to consolidate the 'gains' which were made through the decision...
Having made the discovery, Slack set out to profit from it. He assembled a five-man team, including a Jesuit priest-psychologist, and recruited 30 young toughs with police records ranging from burglary to rape−"tomorrow's nothings," as one boy put it. Slack lured them with cash: 50? to $2 an hour for being "research consultants" in a study of "how guys foul up." "Sick, Man, Sick." The chance to unburden themselves on tape−and then listen to the playback−worked as well as analysis. Usually, says Slack, the boys passed through five stages: apathy...
Streetcorner Research got its name from its first location: a store front at the corner of Bow Street and Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. On the staff, in addition to Slack and Schwitzgebel, were Stanley Dubinsky, a social work student; David Kantor, a Harvard sociologist; and Father Jaun Cortes, a Jesuit priest and Clinical psychologist...
Like James Joyce or Sigmund Freud, the late Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jesuit priest and paleontologist, has become an inescapable intellectual presence of the age. Until, and even after, his death in 1955, the Vatican forbade the publication of his nonscientific works, largely because he accepted evolution as the key to human history. In the eyes of Rome, Teilhard remains a near heretic. Last month the Holy Office issued a solemn warning for religious superiors "to guard souls, especially of the young, against the dangers contained in the works of Father Teilhard de Chardin and his followers...
Teilhard hoped to get his ideas published but, as a good Jesuit, obeyed when Rome said no. Nevertheless, manuscript copies of his works filtered into scholarly French circles. To the dismay of the Vatican, an international committee of intellectuals-including Biologist Sir Julian Huxley and Historian Arnold Toynbee -has posthumously sponsored publication of his major works. Teilhard, who was known in his lifetime as one of the discoverers of the Peking Man, thought of himself as "a pilgrim of the future," and his reputation continues to grow: a museum in Paris bears his name, more than 500 monographs...