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Like many other victims in the Catholic publishing world, the Register was also a remote casualty of the Second Vatican Council. During the exciting conciliar years 1962-65, Catholic publishing enjoyed a remarkable boom that inspired what Cross Currents Editor Joseph Cunneen calls "unreal expectations." Moreover, the widespread liturgical experimentation encouraged by Vatican II seriously undermined a profitable "black book" trade in breviaries, missals and hymnals. Many Catholic bookstores, dependent on these items and such increasingly unpopular devotional accessories as rosaries and statues, simply went out of business, thus depriving publishers of one of their major outlets. Rapid developments...
...scribble a political statement on a roll of toilet paper, but the next morning he's released without being charged or heard. "The cruelest persecution." he learns, "is the persecution of silence," the repressive tolerance accorded him by the State, which renders all his actions not only ineffective but unreal. The Revolutionary asks much the same question as Zabriskie Point about the nature-or possibility-of real experience in a banal, totally artificial society...
...MARCH entered Cambridge in the cerie half-light of late dusk. The streetlights gave some light, but the glow in the sky behind the buildings lent the situation an unreal air. Marchers could not see the faces of those marching next to them. As the crowd progressed down Mass. Ave, toward Central Sq., files of cops, wearing riot helmets and carrying tear-gas guns, came into view at the side of the street. Advance scouts rushed ahead to survey police formations, then returned with exact reports on their number and armament: "There are 96 cops up there, with dogs...
...front yard, take small comfort in the ancient Buddhist temples of Luangprabang. To a certain extent, Cambodians could relive the triumphs of the Khmers in the resounding rhetoric of Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who at least kept the kingdom independent. Clearly, if the past sometimes seems impossibly remote and unreal to Indochina's long-suffering peoples, that is the result of an all too real present...
Similarly, the musical Purlie, fashioned from the straight play Purlie Victorious, which opened on Broadway in September 1961, has become peculiarly quaint. The downtrodden, stereotypical Negroes whom it portrays seem uncannily unreal. Blacks have taken large, if not mighty, strides forward from the Purlie Victorious caricature, as much in their own minds as in white eyes...