EDITORIALS
CORRESPONDENCE Boston Schools Hyde Park, Mass. To the Editors: Michael True's perceptive vision [Oct. 25] of the problems that deprive Boston School schildren of an adequate education is most...
...Nor do I hold that destructive aggression (Hitler's or that of the murder of Indonesian Communists) stems from being mesmerized by football...
...But the greater cause of male anger wells out of feelings of self-devaluation in a society that demands intense competition and performance norms to achieve self-worth...
...P.S...
...Michigan is leading 10-0...
...michael novak Pat Crawley Downsview, Ontario To the Editors: The life and recent death of Pat Crowley of Chicago bring to mind many memories, evidence of the great man and Christian he was...
...Episcopal clergymen usually are "Mr...
...The only available spot was an old factory that was selling for $20,000-an impossible sum for us at that point...
...Peter, the principal, and their puzzled if not belligerent, lawyer...
...I would agree to a point that bureaucracy represses self-assertion...
...Increased overtime for Boston police officers charged with overseeing peaceful compliance, motorcades and demonstrations and budding political careers are prevalent among anti-busing forces...
...ulcers and heart attacks are the daily injuries of corporate life...
...Maybe, even revolutionary for the time...
...I, too, have heard about Cain and Abel...
...Why no interest...
...In New York, to be sure, there appear to be few outward differences between some Episcopal parishes (St...
...Rather I use the gridiron battle as a symbolic rite that throws light on some peculiarly American nuances and propensities concerning violence...
...In this rotten old world, Pat's life gives us hope...
...Pat and I found ourselves in the office at Rosary facing a pleased Sr...
...Then I remembered that Sr...
...to undo the wrongs of interracial injustice...
...I propose that few Roman Catholics would feel comfortable receiving communion in Episcopal parishes in the South...
...18, 1974) on violence...
...ANN HARRIGAN MAKLETZOFF First Director, Chicago Friendship House...
...The game also features skill, suspense, excitement, etc., but I see these elements as subordinate to its destructive side...
...The environment of "social learning" has, since a little before Cain and Abel, been far more vicious than football...
...But farther south, practices (not to mention the beliefs behind them) are quite different...
...A heavy charge...
...on Sunday would find himself/herself attending Morning Prayer, which is often listed as the "main" service...
...Thomas Aquinas (of blessed memory) as a member of the Board of Directors of Rosary College had said that if we ran into difficulties they would try to make good any deficit...
...And certainly Chicago, and in some ways, the country and the world, are better places because of him...
...LEONORA M. GRANT Intercommunion Chapel Hill, N.C...
...At least half the time a visitor to an Episcopal service at 10 or 11 A.M...
...if it is largely acquired, it can be unlearned...
...That's high religious praise...
...FH was a novel concept then-a group of lay people banded together for a cause, and the cause...
...Writings on "sisterhood" discuss dishonesty and false consciousness at length...
...Perhaps he means that women impede the animal lustiness and "physicality" which he says is proper to male nature...
...Body Politics Sacramento, Calif...
...Novak argues that the rage of men toward women arises from being dominated by females in the male's formative years...
...As I recall, Tarzan seemed to do pretty well swinging through the trees even when Jane was near...
...non-cooperation bordering on non-compliance from the school committee and various school personnel...
...What you present is the ideal image of the (Continued on Page 309)CORRESPONDENCE (Continued from page 283) Episcopal Church toward which the Anglo-Catholic minority (based in New York) has long tried to direct the Protestant-minded majority of the Episcopal Church...
...In the meantime, many good teachers and school administrators, parents, community people and hopeful students strive for one goal, a quality education, taken for granted by most American children today...
...When Novak complains of women-directed institutions manifesting emotional falsity, I both wonder what he is talking about and I detect a touch of anti-feminist bias...
...We were there to sign the loan papers for the $5,000, and it was to be interest free-hence his animosity...
...Because of the structure of the school committee, five members elected at large in a city-wide election, the probability of a minority candidate being elected is slight...
...1] of my article in The Christian Century (Sept...
...I'm sure that if I had been alone...
...Unfortunately, Boston voters, because of misguided loyalty to the present five-member school committee who had promised to save them from integration, voted down an opportunity for community-controlled schools...
...I feel like the kid who has been made to wear the wrong mask, and who has just bitten into a candy football only to find a stone inside...
...Back in 1942, when the Crowleys, Pat and Patty, first came to FH, it was new-born, struggling to get on its feet (see Commonweal, May 14, 1944...
...Incidentally, the Chairman of the present Boston School Committee who vowed repeatedly to go to jail before a single white child would be bussed never made good on his promise...
...as lovely a communal art as humans have ever invented...
...To those lucky enough to escape those mills-and the nearby mines -football seemed far less competitive, violent, injurious to the body, and damaging to male-female relations...
...During my periods of service as a parish officer and convention delegate in the Episcopal Church, I observed little that was admirable in the deliberations surrounding the ordination of women...
...But after I had really put the fat in the fire by answering that question, "Perhaps the sisters at Rosary remember that at one time in the church, interest on loans was considered usury," Pat's smiling diplomacy and legal expertise won the day...
...I hold with Social Learning psychologists that the destructive dimensions of aggression are mainly conditioned or learned...
...While James languished in jail with no hope of his case coming up for years, Pat and a few influential friends interested themselves in the case, so that it was quickly brought to court, and James was freed and pardoned...
...I don't think he needed the distorting rhetorical flourishes to make his points...
...But I would go further ,in claiming that capitalism, as we experience it, is also directly related to the male violence mystique in that it calls for toughness and intense competitiveness while sacrificing humane considerations to material gains...
...My article is primarily about male violence and the sexist, psychic conditioning that engenders it in our society...
...To begin with, just finding a celebration of the Holy Communion could be a problem...
...VALLIN D. ESTES, JR...
...Bernard James, was sent to the federal pen during World War II on what appeared to be a trumped up charge by his Southern white CO...
...I still have hope and Pat is one of the reasons...
...The men/ women liberation movement, however, tells us that the Tarzan-Jane model is precisely what is wrong with man-woman relations...
...One of our most valued volunteers, Sgt...
...There are indeed many similarities between the Roman Catholic Church and the Episcopal Church...
...Bianchi is usually perceptive and sympathetic with respect to religions not his own...
...MRS...
...But friends and neighbors managed to bring us within $5,000 of the goal...
...1] as being "barely distinguishable" from the Roman Catholic Church is simply not realistic...
...I purposely stress the negative aspects of the game: intended brutality, violent competition, commercialism and especially sexism...
...The Homestead Works of U.S...
...I recall his legal help on two occasions...
...Since I have high regard for Novak, I am the more distressed that he misrepresents my piece...
...Yet I wonder how this hymn would sound now to football's thousands of seriously injured, some to the extent of total paralysis...
...EUGENE C. BIANCHI Reply It's the day of the Ohio State-Michigan game as I am asked to reply to Eugene Bianchi's repetition of his original argument, and his gentle misrepresentation of my own views...
...However, in the meantime, I hope you will check your facts more thoroughly before making any more general statements about the Episcopal Church...
...I use football only as a symbolic ritual which mirrors some of the violence-prone dimensions of our culture...
...Vigorous sports of many kinds are fine...
...But as long as such a large number of Episcopalians (and not just laity) view themselves as Protestant Episcopal and do not even consider their Sunday obligation to be attendance at the Eucharist, I cannot see how the Roman Catholic Church could begin to give serious consideration to intercommunion...
...Since I have lived through ten frus-trating years as an Anglo-Catholic in the Episcopal Church (becoming a Roman Catholic just a year ago), I feel I can say with some authority that your exposure to the Episcopal Church has been extremely limited...
...Steel, blocking the sun, might be such a symbol...
...Novak seems to favor the instinct or nature argument for male aggressiveness...
...Surely, there are symbols far more basic, accurate, and fair...
...One of the most hopeful signs in the field of sports is that women may now enter them in greater numbers, with greater intensity, discipline, love and pleasure...
...In such Episcopal parishes clergymen ate "father," confessions are heard regularly, ceremony is used, and the Eucharist-referred to as "Mass"-is the main worship service of the parish...
...a spate of books and articles announces it...
...This in turn can lead to lower self-esteem causative of violence...
...Mary the Virgin, for example) and Roman Catholic parishes...
...Because of the personal support and presence of the Crowleys FH was helped to stabilize...
...Jones" or "Bill," ceremony is the exception rather than the rule, confession is a rarity, the Blessed Sacrament is usually not reserved, and the Eucharist in most parishes is interchangeable with Morning Prayer...
...As an institution, football is as flawed and in need of reform as any other...
...Indiana Avenue, was happily ended...
...Novak does not find capitalism connected with male aggression, because its impersonal bureaucracy denies strong impulse and "physicality...
...Pat himself came forward in many of the crises we went through...
...Social Learning is a more hopeful approach to violence...
...To the Editors: The impression you give of the Episcopal Church ["Women Priests," Nov...
...I sincerely hope the Episcopal Church will move closer to the idea you have of it...
...In his concluding paean to football, Novak sees it as "a humble saving grace, a joy to millions...
...Gentle Bianchi's use of football to symbolize the errors of capitalism, competitiveness, violence, injury to the human body, and inadequate male-female relations is fashionable...
...First to Novak's misrepresentations, then to a few of his debatable issues...
...Perhaps one day even football will fall within his ecumenical concern: nay, even Howard Cosell in all his glory...
...More students commit suicide than are killed by football...
...Another time, when FH was up against the old familiar problem, housing, we had to search high and low for a place on the teeming South Side...
...Meanwhile in the city, under a federal court order to desegregate, it's business as usual...
...I especially remember the many ways he offered help to not-so-popular causes like Friendship House in Chicago...
...To the Editors: It's Halloween as I set about answering Michael Novak's critique [Nov...
...mononucleosis and nervous breakdowns claim others...
...Those who oppose football, Novak maintains, display fear and hatred of the human body...
...he almost choked in indignation...
...As for the matter of women priests: the time has certainly come for us to consider the issue...
...If it is simply a matter of male, natural instinct, a kind of hydraulic drive that will out, it won't make any difference if women tell men to "be good little boys...
...But those that combine exaggerated competition (towards others) and violence, such as prizefighting and football, tend to increase harmful aggression directly and vicariously...
...But Howard Cosell and thirty million weekend fans can't be wrong, can they...
...On the contrary, we critics of the game care so much about the body that we hate to see it injured and brutalized...
...As I stated in my article, there may be some of this resentment in men...
...They ignore the violence, brutality, competitiveness, and bodily injury done by their own institutions-not least, universities, the media, and even research firms thick with "Social Learning Pychologists...
...My article doesn't say that football causes society's violence or that only Americans are violent...
...But even good men like Eugene Bian-chi characteristically misperceive institutions to which they have little allegiance...
...But the Episcopal Church's handling of this matter should hardly be held up as a model for imitation...
...Of course, I don't believe that male violence began in 1874 with the invention of football...
...25] of the problems that deprive Boston School schildren of an adequate education is most welcome...
...We all signed a 5-year agreement, and before anyone could change his mind, I grabbed Pat's hand, and rushed down the hall and out into the car and thus our search for a new home, 3244 So...
Vol. 101 • January 1975 • No. 11
