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...they are forced to face their advancing age, their unrequited dreams, and their many limitations. Four former high school basketball players and their coach have gathered together to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their championship season. Each of the men is to some degree unsatisfied with his life. The root of their common dissatisfaction lies in the fact that that high school championship season was the high point of their lives. Through the years they have never been able to equal the glory of their youthful triumph. They have, in fact, fallen into mediocrity. One of the players...
...Bodies, Ourselves does not make any far-reaching political statement, but the women who wrote it seem at ease with that aspect of their work. "I really feel feminism is at the root of any radical change, because it gets right into the home, into the basic power relationships in society," Sanford says. "We're not just talking about women, but about both men and women." Issues like who takes care of the children and who does the dishes are now called into question. But she says sadly she doesn't see much change in the basic health care provided...
...democratic and reform ideals, the concern for social issues, and the emphasis on an active laiety that emerged from Pope John XXIII's Vatican Council in 1963 failed to take root in the seventies. With this failure, the support for liturgical and ministerial creativity began to dwindle also. "We had stressed creativity in our early years," Griffin said, "but the pressure and support for it decreased as time went on. The younger students in the community were not as conscious of the Church reforms brought on by Vatican II. I started to notice a new emphasis emerging, one which...
...root of the problem is a question of semantics. Friedrich doesn't want to be tied down to limiting definitions of madness--he seeks an "overview" of some sort--so he tosses out a few words like "crazy" and "insane" and leaves it to us to sort out his verbal juggling. His explanation of this is a kind of catch-all empiricism, with a few arbitrary criteria tacked...
DIGGINS' STRESS on the anti-liberal attitudes of the four is central to his interpretation of their development. He sees certain fixed characteristics in these men which are at the root of both their early attraction to Marxism and their later repudiation of it in favor of conservatism. "Open a copy of National Review," he says, "and we find the renegades from radicalism as cold war avengers. Positions have changed, but the passions remain." The ex-communist becomes an "inverted Stalinist", in Isaac Deutscher's phrase. Diggins defers to Deutscher's descriptions of such...