Word: voiceless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These reflections at once place the churches before their prophetic role to be the voice of the voiceless in society. Certain obvious questions follow: What does it mean to believe in and to proclaim God's justice? How should the churches work in order that God's justice is realized in society? How does the Church define itself in the midst of flagrant injustices...
INTERVIEWS WITH 47 AGING ex-Communist Party members are sandwiched between Gornick's nostalgic memories of the Bronx and her subsequent experience as a radical feminist. Her childhood taught her that optimistic left-wing ideology could soothe the pain of voiceless poverty: "People sat down at the kitchen table to talk, Politics sat down with them, Ideas sat down with them, above all, History sat down with them." During her teens, she joined the Communist-affiliated Labor Youth League, but she recalls, "I had often been in a state of dismay as I felt the weight of simplistic socialist explanations...
...Castle of Crossed Destinies has more up its sleeve than card tricks. Its voiceless strangers have lost their way in a dark forest straight out of Dante. Their lodging resembles a late medieval castle, but it may also be a metaphor for history: "... an inn of passage, where people unknown to one another live together for one night..." The guests are figments in the Western narrative dream of Chaucer and Boccaccio...
There are others, the poor and voiceless among them, who will also mourn Daley. But they will mourn the passing of the man, not of his city. For them Daley worked, though Chicago did not. They welcome the changes that will take place. Last week the acting mayor, under pressure from the Latin community, ordered Spanish taught to firemen working in Latin areas. That wouldn't have happened in what are now quickly becoming the old days--the Daley years...
...seen as a cancerous evil. Indeed, as Blake wrote, "Where nature is and man is not, nature is barren." A true solution must affirm the worth and goodness of man, while recognizing the evil he has done. A true solution must be one that speaks for those who are voiceless...