Word: pews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gilbert Pew was a tank driver in "the Nam," where he was seriously wounded. He returned home to New York to find that his wife of 1½ years had become a drug addict. Soon after, she left him, and her mother had Pew evicted from the couple's apartment. Unable to find housing and without a family of his own, he lived in an abandoned Harlem tenement with rats and junkies as his only neighbors for several weeks before finding a room. "Guys look forward to getting home and getting all those benefits the Army promised while...
Waiting List. There is some truth to Pew's complaint. Compared with their World War II and Korean War counterparts, Viet Nam veterans are unheralded, even unwanted. On the average younger and less skilled, they are returning to look for work in one of the toughest job situations seen in their lifetime. Yet veterans' benefits, the traditional bootstrap up when all else has failed, are woefully inadequate compared with other years. The G.I. Bill for Education, for example, once provided for full tuition, plus $75 monthly for expenses. Now it pays but $175 a month, hardly enough...
...this time, the man from Channel 5 has arrived. He and the photo man get together and decide that they want Paul to stand on a pew in view of many of the antiwar posters that adorn the sanctuary. "Right, that's good. Hey, Paul, let's stick that fist up. Right, higher, higher, a bit higher, really high. Great, that's good." The lights from the television make Paul squint and suddenly the quietly eloquent pacifist whose faith in people is innocent but not naive is transformed into some kind of squinty, fist-raised freak...
...less tiresome for their undeniable reality. Tom Garrison (Melvyn Douglas) is a Westchester County octogenarian Babbitt who fulminates against "some damned savage who will walk off with the luggage" at Kennedy Airport and complains to a fellow Rotarian about "some bozo who has been crowding into our pew at church." As a child he worshiped his mother and despised his father; naturally his middle-aged son (Gene Hackman) feels the same way. The two clash openly-and obviously-when Gene's garden-club-variety mother dies. Sensitive son mourns while boorish father frets over casket prices and answers sympathy...
With the help of articles like yours, the man in the pew may be able to see that the problems of the church today are his problems. He is the church...