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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Society is a truly modern religious community, combining medieval features like daily offices with modern ideas like outside charity work. All of the monks are required to do local charity work--such as helping out at shelters for the homeless--at least once every three weeks...

Author: By Teresa L. Johnson, | Title: The Monks of Harvard Square | 4/10/1986 | See Source »

...keeping with the community's role in providing a spiritual haven from an increasingly complex and harried modern life, it seems like a world away inside the monastery despite its proximity to Harvard Square. The monastery is a quiet, peaceful place with no pretention. The atmosphere is solemn but humble, and the only ornamentation is in the stained-glass windows of the chapel. In short, the monastery is about as different from the Square and the University as possible--which may be the key to its popularity...

Author: By Teresa L. Johnson, | Title: The Monks of Harvard Square | 4/10/1986 | See Source »

...modern" bent of the Society comes from the philosophy of its founder, Father Richard M. Benson, who began the society in Oxford in 1863. "There was a clear understanding in the beginning that part of our role would be ministering to the ministers," says Father Smith. The order set up shop in an unpretentious building ministering to the lower classes of Oxford, doing active works of evangelizing, teaching and preaching. Eschewing the traditional monastic habit, they adopted the simple black cassock of the Anglican clergy, but kept to the monastic regime and took the traditional monastic vows of chastity, poverty...

Author: By Teresa L. Johnson, | Title: The Monks of Harvard Square | 4/10/1986 | See Source »

That condition -- what Drucker calls the "uncoupling" of the primary- products economy from the industrial economy -- is largely due to technological changes. Modern industrial processes in both high-tech and traditional industries, he notes, require far fewer raw materials and far less energy than before. Despite much talk about the "deindustrialization" of the U.S., Drucker notes, the manufacturing sector still holds steady at roughly 23% of American GNP -- about the same level as 30 years ago. Nor is the U.S. really suffering as an exporter of manufactured goods: its world market share increased from 17% to 20% between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World in Flux: Drucker dissects global change | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

Instead, the U.S. has shed blue-collar jobs -- 5 million since 1975 -- as it experienced an accelerated substitution of knowledge and capital for manual labor. Without such a substitution, Drucker argues, no modern nation can hope to remain competitive. Says he: "The attempt to preserve . . . blue-collar jobs is actually a prescription for unemployment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World in Flux: Drucker dissects global change | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

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