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...radicalization of the Church--that is, more power over the Church by individual Catholics and greater Church concern for problems of war, poverty and powerlessness--but rather to what Hitch cock tellingly calls "spiritual sub-urbanization." The radical spiritual ness of the Church is very much outside of the mainstream of American pragmatism with its emphasis on GNP and incentive systems. What liberal Catholics have failed to see--and what the Fathers Berrigan and Thomas Merton and the Catholic Worker movement have--is that orthodox belief can lead very easily to a radical critique. Like the Kennedy liberals (a term...
What is really needed, many educators now say, is ways to help teachers cope with the special problems that ghetto children have in learning skills for survival in the nation's middle-class mainstream. The experts feel that a basic shortcoming of the American educational system is that?particularly in the ghetto?it has not faced up to the challenges of coping with students from widely divergent cultural backgrounds. "The schools of this country have traditionally been geared to meeting the needs of middle-class children," says California's Superintendent of Public Instruction Wilson Riles...
Thus went Stanley Kramer. That night, he represented not only the ludicrous aspects of Hollywood deep-think, but the frame of mind needed to outjob mainstream Hollywood product. All his films have the built-in sentimentality evidenced by his one-man, one-"feeling" statements, and this negates any biting commentary he ever wishes to make. Most men are basically good, says Kramer's films; their political and social ills are shallow compared to the potential of their 'untapped depths of human understanding'; if you get a Negro and a cracker on the same side of a chase, they'll learn...
...roles of a woman and a successful female athlete are incompatible in the United States. The woman who wishes to participate in sports and remain 'womanly' faces great stress. By choosing sport, she usually places herself outside the social mainstream...
Unforgivable Personality. If his bearing won plaudits overseas, it endeared him to few at home. His enemies might forgive him his policies, but never his personality; it was not mainstream America. As his State Department colleague Louis Halle put it: "He was too unrepresentative to be trusted." Said Canada's former Prime Minister Lester Pearson: "Not only did he not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all." "A good many members of Congress didn't like me," said Acheson. "This didn't bother me at all. I didn't care whether they liked...