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...leviathan had been a teaching; she constantly repeated her heart's promise to never forget the lesson. She must say no to the joy; it must not again come so near to penetrating and filling. Then it was only a blind force, like white lightning, like the od shot. Only destruction, the apocalypse and only that...
...kids like Larry Largey and Kevin Harris, and those kids you see hanging out on your streetcorners. It is the two-and-a-half-year-old Youth Resources Bureau, the only social service agency in town specifically mandated to deal with "juvenile delinquency." The day Kevin died of an OD there were no formal programs for Riverside. But plans were afoot--for a program that would teach black girls their self-identity, through a cosmetics course...
Jesuit Joseph Flanagan, a longtime Lonergan scholar, was much less surprised. For Flanagan, Lonergan's meth od "not only includes but demands interdisciplinary dialectic. We must learn from one another." To do otherwise, says Flanagan, simply contributes to "the pool of misunderstanding" that in Lonergan's thought lies at the source of so many of mankind's woes...
...cause of Barrault's dismissal was his role in last May's student riots. During the demonstrations, anarchist rebels from the Sorbonne "liberated" the Odéon and turned it into a discussion hall. They also destroyed 50% of the sets, ripped up red velvet seats and urinated on costumes. Barrault wept when he saw the damage, but government officials believed that he tacitly allowed the rebels to take over. Barrault also took the stage to proclaim his sympathy with student goals and to denounce France's "bourgeois culture...
Barrault's removal set off a chorus of protest by French stage figures and critics. Nearly half of Barrault's actors vowed to quit the Théâtre de France if he decides to form a new company of his own. Meanwhile, the Odéon is deserted. Only an occasional patrolling gendarme walks its stage...