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...feminist theologians argue that Judaeo-Christian theology is still far too dominated by male concepts. Boston College's Mary Daly, a Roman Catholic laywoman, says a woman's revolution within the church is needed to overturn the patriarchal, male idea of leadership, which she describes as hyper-rational and aggressive. With it would go the masculine habit of constructing boundaries between "self" and "other." Gone, too, would be a God who keeps mankind in "infantile subjection." The new God would "encourage self-actualization and social commitment." Daly also sees a de-emphasis of Jesus: "The idea...
...attacks on "Pinkville" came on the heels of the massive Tet offensive, and U.S. troops were undoubtedly, as Calley said of himself, feeling "hyper." A few weeks before My Lai, Calley's radio operator was killed walking behind him in the first Pinkville assault. "The bullet just took his entire kidney out," Calley testified, "so he died within a matter of minutes...
...Dark. At about 8:30 a.m. on March 16, the men of Charlie Company were lifted by helicopter toward My Lai. "I was definitely hyper," said Calley. The men feared most the sort of minefields that had previously decimated their unit. In a minefield, Calley said, "it's kind of like being in the dark, knowing there is a step there and afraid to walk. You almost have to force every foot down...
...disturbing . . . gap in understanding between you and your Blue Mother." Upon a clear and reasonable narrative of last spring's events Hersey has strung a series of uneven but perceptive observations about young people. He finds them thirsty for moral leadership, not totally liberated about sex, "hyper-energetic," and capable of astonishing maturity when given enough trust...
Politics makes strange box office. A few years ago, the new wave in show biz was the anti-Establishment rock musical Hair and its tribe of imitators. Now comes the hyper-American backlash. George M! was a smash on the road and appeared again as an NBC-TV adaptation. The film Patton has grossed $9,000,000 in nine months. Last week the latest and most patriotic show yet, a musical revue titled So Proudly We Hail, was playing at-of all places -the Sahara Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip...