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...sight. Mainline congregations, says Isabel Rogers, former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), are "no longer the primary shapers of values in American society." What, then, does their decline portend for a society that has been so largely built upon their values and precepts? That is hardly a trivial matter. How the nation defines itself spiritually will have much to do with its future political directions and with the strength of its moral foundations, which are increasingly under siege by drugs, violence and pervasive greed...
...Each season she buys a new wardrobe of Chanel clothes and cruises about Manhattan on 65 pairs of black flats. "At every age a woman should feel she is dressed her best," advises Lear. "Often intelligent women feel embarrassed about concentrating on fashion. They shouldn't. It isn't trivial." Though a feminist, she readily exalts the sexual power of feminine beauty. Blissfully she recalls lounging about a country-club pool in her 20s. "I was wearing a fuchsia top and bottom, brief for those times. My body was just right. Well, the men just kept on coming over...
AMERICANS like criticizing their government. On any given day in any large U.S. city, elected officials field a bewildering array of complaints, ranging from relatively trivial matters of garbage pickup and snow removal to deeper issues of police brutality and development...
...seem trivial to you, but I really want us to have a state that is socially just. Really. And I want to fight for this...
...That is not trivial. Have you had this conviction since childhood...