CORRESPONDENCE
CORRESPONDENCE A Liberal Wallace? Milwaukee, Wise. To the Editors: Sisyphus' comments about the need for a "liberal George Wallace" in your July 18, 1975 issue was an unexpected piece of horse...
...I do not think it will touch off a spate of "blue collar chic" among liberals since that would offend the elitism which makes liberalism fun...
...THEODORE R. SNYDER Jackson, Miss...
...To the Editors: Sisyphus' comments about the need for a "liberal George Wallace" in your July 18, 1975 issue was an unexpected piece of horse sense in the liberal Catholic press...
...Harris's credentials as a liberal are unassailable...
...His campaign has at the moment only one paid em-ploye...
...To the Editors: Your "Washington Re-port" by Sisyphus in the July 18 is-sue, "A Liberal George Wallace," was timely and excellent, except in one important regard...
...The liberal George Wallace which Sisyphus calls for is happening, not in the per-son of one man or woman, but cor-porately in the coalitions of white, ethnic, and black organizations...
...I would like to see the Catholic press take the leadership and provide the constructive analysis and criticism which the community organizing effort going on today needs...
...If the Catholic Church today is no longer seen as a hopelessly calci-fied nondatum by Protestant observers (especially by those from the Ana-baptist or 'evangelical' traditions), to what extent has the "massive crisis of authority" (p...
...Henry's candid response serves both to refute the prediction of pre-conciliar cynics that no amount of belated accommodation to the demands of the Protestant Reformation would elicit a meaningful response and to confirm our worst fears of what would happen should Peter grow weary too soon of following Our Lord over the frightful waters of the postconciliar period...
...Let's hope future articles are written by persons with a broader perspective on theology and a willingness to at least approach the subject matter...
...29), thus bringing national attention to the landmark Villard Houses...
...The reluctance of standard liberals to pay attention to and reassess the mood and constructive efforts of urban working-class neighborhoods is leaving them behind in the realistic search for honest solutions to urban problems...
...Yet much of the liberal press ignores these efforts or minimizes their importance...
...240) within the Church obscured the genuine achievements of reform and renewal called for by the Council and to such a large extent implemented in Catholic life today...
...Harris is trying to expose Wallace as the fraud he is, yet do something about the genuine grievances of the Alabaman's followers...
...Surely he is the only candidate with a chance to do so...
...Unlike the other candidates, Fred Harris is not "di-rected by hired help...
...Fred Harris does acknowledge 20 percent of what Wallace is saying but, unlike many aristocratic liberals, Harris leaves no doubt that he is unalterably opposed to Wallace himself...
...It was amusing to see how easy it is to move from the subject at hand to one's pet peeves...
...When I had lunch with him, Harris did not slurp his soup, but then you can't have everything...
...He is trying to build a coalition of blacks, Wallace-supporters, and liberals...
...How very difficult it must be for our alienated brethren to interpret our predicament as anything but "a break-down in faith" (p...
...It is not entirely impossible that Ms...
...Peter's halting faith is threatening to obscure everything once again...
...If he doesn't, then his mouth will not be large enough for his foot...
...A few months ago he visited Mississippi and the reactions of the people who saw him-including a number of rednecks and blacks- indicated that he just might be able to build such a coalition...
...The portrait given fits one announced candidate as if he had posed for it...
...Aside from requiring extremely large variances for more density and tower encroachment, the Archbishopric, Les-sor and Harry Helmsley, Lessee are be-ing challenged to produce data to sub-stantiate this scheme which, to date, is not in evidence...
...Society Against Villard's Extinction), I want to thank you for your News & Views item, "Art Loses Again" (Aug...
...Indeed what America needs in the coming election year is "a different kind of liberal," unlike aristocratic liberals of the past and present...
...In the closing words of The Common Catechism, "Ecumenism grieves...
...240...
...One other point...
...yet he offers constructive and imagina-tive solutions, not a rehash of the New Deal...
...However, I disagree that "there will be a Villard shell, overwhelmed by a turgid New York Palace Hotel" as stated at the end of the editorial...
...Msgr...
...To the Editors: On behalf of S.A.V.E...
...DARCY LEWIS, Chairwoman...
...We need someone who can "speak in shirt-sleeved English" and "tell it as it ought to be-and show the way...
...DOUGLAS T. IBACH Austin, Texas To the Editors: Carl F. H. Henry's article, "From the Juncture of the Reformation" [July 4], was well worth the reading at the cost, one has every reason to believe, of no one's good will...
...ROBERT S. MC ELVAINE Ecumenist Perspective Reston, Va...
...Denmark isn't the only state in which there is something very rotten...
...Fred Harris does speak shirt-sleeved English...
...Not very many large and middle-sized cities are without their home-grown community organization which has seized issues which most politicians will not touch: redlining, failure of urban education, street crime, deceptive mar-keting practices, urban planning mis-takes, property tax absurdities, etc...
...Clark, archdioce-san director of communications, who is "willing to go to any lengths to preserve the Villard Houses" should be made to activate what he has originated...
...It is S.A.V.E.'s conviction that along with the other obstacles, public opinion will save the Villard Houses...
...Actually, "it's a shotgun wedding of a New York landmark and New York schlock" in which a divorce appears to be more than just a rumor...
...I would like to see this effort be recognized in the religious press for what it is: the crea-tive involvement of Catholic and Prot-estant parishes in their world...
...Bouchard's idea of converting the Villard Houses into a museum of Christian art will become a reality...
...The problem with the article was its insistence that no such candidate is presently in the race...
...It is a source of deep disappointment to all concerned with Christian unity to think that, just when John XXIII and the Council Fathers had done so much to let the Spirit shine from the very heart of the visible Church, removing the historical impediments to recog-nizing the living Christ at work in the petrine office, new impediments have been erected and a new history...
...His voice sounds like that of a Good Ole Boy...
...To the Editors: "From the Juncture of the Reformation" by Carl F. H. Henry [July 4] was one of the poorest articles that you have ever run in your period-ical...
...Henry told you very little about his honest feelings about the Roman Catholic Church but he did find opportunity to run his usual at-tack on Protestant ecumenists who have been a threat to him since he began writing...
...The functional integration of people work-ing on the same problems is twenty times more valuable than the abstrac-tion of integration pursued in the edi-torial columns of liberal newspapers or in liberal legislation...
...This proposed project is not a fait accompli and the tortuous scheme to crouch a 52-or-more-story hotel-office building has been confronted with legal ramifica-tions, as well as mounting adversity...
...The choice of an evangelical theologian to begin this very promising series of responses to the puzzling phenomenon of contemporary Roman Catholicism seems especially appropri-ate for an American publication...
...As the Assistant News Director of a large television station said to one group here, "What does a bunch of priests and housewives know about the city . . . ?" Ralph Nader recently charged that the news media generally ignores the political activities of neighborhood peo-ple: housewives, the retired, clergymen, The fascination of the press with every trifling comment from City Hall or Washington has blinded it to a genuine revolution happening in its midst...
...Butchering the buildings would leave a desecration that can only be termed esthetic abortion and it is inconceivable that the Archdiocese would be left in peace by Christians, as well as all art-loving people...
...GUY C. CARTER Villard Houses New York, N.Y...
Vol. 102 • September 1975 • No. 14
