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...convey to you something Dave Crosby said to me just after CSN&Y descended from the stage at Woodstock: "We may be a little flaky, a bit flip, and sometimes we may say non-serious things, but just listen to the words of 'Wooden Ships' if you really want to know where we're coming from...
...word statement on homosexuality, premarital sex and masturbation, it was responding in part to complaints that the church was not providing sufficient guidelines for sexual behavior and attitudes. Days later, Father John McNeill, a Jesuit priest and former teacher of moral theology at the now defunct Woodstock College and at Fordham University, won the designation Imprimi Potest (it can be printed) for a book strongly attacking the church's views on homosexuality. It had taken two years to win that designation, which is not an endorsement. Jesuit Superior General Pedro Arrupe had delayed publication while McNeill consulted scholars...
...delivering a conventional wisdom that the Democrats latest convention is evidence of a return to conservative sanity after the ideological rending of 1968 and 1972. Martin Nolan, one of the best of Washington columnists, compares the McGovern and Carter installations as a constrast between a Rotary convention and Woodstock nation. This viewpoint implies that the Democrats have gone back to being something akin to the Christian Democrats of Italy--a permanent majority party dedicated to winning elections and dispensing patronage, oblivious to broader issues since the American electorate is itself "non-ideological." The foregoing opinion has the virtue of being...
...from engravings seen here or there in a bookseller's shop. Since there are no art academies or public exhibitions, they are little known in the cities; nor do they sign their names for posterity. Among the few who will be remembered is Winthrop Chandler, who lives in Woodstock, Connecticut, where he paints portraits, fireplace panels, even houses...
...There is a time to pray and a time to fight," proclaimed Pastor Peter Muhlenberg, 29. Then, before his astonished flock in Woodstock, Virginia, he tore off his vestments to reveal the uniform of a militia officer. That was last January. Now Muhlenberg is colonel of the regiment he raised himself, the 8th Virginia. But the country's main Lutheran leader, his father Henry, follows Martin Luther in mistrusting revolutions. Other churches are also taking sides...