Word: woodstocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mutters the ex-prisoner. Abandoning his pepup and soy derivative, he pushes onward to a record store. His favorites have quite literally passed on. Judy Garland, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix-all killed by various ODs. The Beatles? Fragmented. The unheard of Woodstock? While he was gone it was born, matured, grew senile and became a comic epitaph on an old emotion. Some stalwarts remain here too: Streisand, Elvis Presley, Joan Baez, The Stones. But who are the Partridge Family? Cheech and Chong? Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show...
Like Nixon's Inauguration, the concert was exceptionally well organized. As the thousands of people stood in line before each entrance, a voice over the loudspeaker made announcements and give directions. He conversed in a manner reminiscent of Woodstock...
...forty-minute mass, the crowd rose up and gave Bernstein a standing ovation. The maestro embraced Sayre and McCarthy, and bowed again and again to the applauding audience. Then, as the voice over the loud speaker thanked everyone for coming, announcing Woodstock-like that there had not been one mishap, people began to file quietly outside into the night...
Many of the men at Woodstock are clearly angry at the decision. Himself a convert to the Manhattan experiment, Father Burghardt, editor of the order's prestigious quarterly, Theological Studies, argues that "experimentation with the different life-styles available in New York is indispensable for our students if we are to prepare them for a contemporary ministry. The decision to close Woodstock has been interpreted by many as another sign that the Society of Jesus has lost its great vision, its instinct for leadership, its openness to the world." Second-Year Student Harry Fogarty groused that...
...Woodstock could conceivably survive in some form. A meeting of the school's board later this month will determine whether it should continue as some sort of graduate theology school or research institute, although it would need the support of the Jesuits or some other sponsor. But the decision from Rome sharply inhibits whatever potential remains-and that is the loss. Woodstock was once renowned, after all, as an institution of particular excellence. Given time to recover from the admitted trauma of its move, it might well have become one again...