ABOARD THE PRINCESS MARGUERITE
McCarthy, Abigoil
ABOARD THE PRINCESS MARGUERITE ABIGAIL MeCARTHY Columnists are supposed to know what they think. The certitudes set out for our instructfon by James Reston, David Broder, George Will, Mary...
...The wheat lands of eastern Washington state differ from the wheat lands of the Midwest, even of Montana, for wheat grown on lava soil seems to have a different color...
...they suggest to me possibilities, or explain the sources of the complexity in the human condition...
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...They seem worth noting...
...r ilirecl i"r~m] the imhlisher...
...It is literally a new land still...
...Yet the disciple of Jesus who is committed to such a restructuring must b e prepared, in Kappen's view, to face death...
...The decline from 72 percent to 52 percent happened entirely during the ensuing ten years...
...There are people (Continued on page 702) 28 Octbore 1977:680 of t h e continuing eruption of God into history implies that persons on the one hand "expect everything from God and rest all their hopes in him" and on the other, will to respond by "a qualitative change in one's system of values and mode of life...
...Sensitive and constructive proposals for easi n g t h e t e n s i o n s between East and West, rich nation and poor nation, pacifists and non-pacifists, environmentalists and nonenvironmentalists...
...Wha[ did it all mean...
...Although there was a good sprinkling of travelers, most of the people were from either Washington or British Columbia...
...Aboard the Princess Marguerite it seemed to me that problems can be solved, people can start afresh, and that humanity might make it after all...
...The singers, not very good but willing, were two professional Irishmen in green tam-o-shanters...
...sometimes not...
...I don't know, but I don't think so...
...That real brotherhood exists in the west...
...We had been forewarned that it was best to make a beeline for the cocktail lounge on the top deck and stake out a window table...
...A black man, in a sports suit but wearing a chief petty officer's cap, shared the next table with a young couple in jeans...
...They knew each other's songs, old and new--something I have noticed that is not true in the east...
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...Writers from Ross McDonald to Joan Didion have documented what they see as the meaningless and empty life of California, the sad conclusion of the American experience, the journey west...
...But the Northwest terminus of that journey remains largely unchronicled...
...The certitudes set out for our instructfon by James Reston, David Broder, George Will, Mary McGrory, Meg Greenfield, William Buckley, Michael Novak, et al, often strike me with awe and admiration...
...They had rhythm...
...We were aboard the Princess Marguerite, the boat which carries tourists from Victoria, British Columbia, to Seattle and back...
...Following their lead we sang "Waltzing Matilda" for a traveling Australian, "Alouette" with tablepounding fervor for a French-Canadian, "Amazing Grace" for some Georgians, "I'll be in Scotland afore ye" for Canadians and Americans of that heritage...
...Catholic sociologists like Sister Marie Augusta, who dismiss our findings about the impact of Humanae Vitae on a priori grounds, ought, according to the canons of empirical social science, to detect 28 October 1977:702...
...the shape of the 1920s bungalow predominates...
...In 1964--the time of the first NORC study--72 percent of the American Catholics went to church every week...
...Three young people linked arms and started an energetic hora, the joyous Israeli group dance...
...It is there in the story of the first Spanish discoverer who yielded the territory peacefully to an English explorer, having decided that it was too far from home ~o defend...
...It is there in the invitation of the Indians to the white man's missionary to share the God who gave the white men a seemingly superior knowledge...
...Just as the lights of Seattle became visible through the first dark there was a climax which set everyone cheering...
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...But I can't quite pin their significance down...
...Every effort drew general applause...
...Jesus and Freedom does not offer a finished model for renewal of society and church in India but a vision and methodology which will benefit the reflections of other Christians involved in social iustice...
...Somehow, with the water slipping by and the slanting sun of the Northwest's long summer evening shining in, it all seemed happier, more genuine and friendly than the induced conviviality in the fusty darkness of most eastern lounges...
...Secondly, among the inaccuracies in Marie Augusta Neal's review of The American Catholic is her assertion that Catholic church attendance began to decline in 1957...
...It is structural change to offer liberation from a destructive social system that Kappen seeks...
...Sure enough, the lounge was bright and airy, the waitresses and bartenders pleasant...
...Two Canadian business women--one from Winnipeg, the other from Victoria--on their way to Seattle to buy, joined us...
...They sang the Minnesota Rouser for me, and a new London rock favorite sent the English-born waitress happily stepping to beat between the tables...
...Even nearer sat a woman of elegant bones and dress, who looked French...
...It is there in people aware that their origins may be varied and elsewhere but that they share the now with other newcomers...
...The "girls" turned out to be of Texas origin...
...other dancers, all young, rose to link arms with them, and around they went, in and out the doors, down between the tables, back and around the bar, breaking off finally at their own tables, breathless and smiling...
...19107 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 CORRESPOHDENCE (Continued from page 677) Another case in point would be the French Catholics, who are also a notably "skewed" subpopulation compared to the other Catholic ethnic groups-Polish, Irish, Italian and German...
...In this way we assured ourselves comfort and a fine view of the darkly wooded shores and islands of the Straits of Juan de Fuca, and of Puget Sound, during the four-hour voyage...
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...For example, I took a trip west this past summer and one evening of that trip brightens life a little whenever I remember it...
...It is there in the cosmology of the Indian making peace with the great beasts with whom he shared the land...
...Or did it mean indifference, a lack of identity and commitment in a materialistic, rootless people on the edge of the continent...
...The farmsteads, too, have the look of this century...
...Nearby were two engineers who hopefully offered chairs to various young women as they came and went...
...That there people are a little less conscious of difference as division, a little more appreciative of variety...
...By judiciously alternating our orders of white wine and sandwiches we managed to stay there for the whole trip...
...It could be...
...The history of man there has a practical, sensible quality...
...From then on similar spontaneous dancing burst out here and there in response to music particularly pleasing to one person or another...
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...They set the tone with sentimental renditions (are there any other kind...
...of A Little Bit of Heaven and My Wild Irish Rose...
...The musicians kept time...
...They besought the crowd for requests and banged out on cue jazz versions of current favorites, old ballads, rock songs, civil rights songs, state and national songs--all sung or played with much the Same sound and beat but with infectious enthusiasm...
...It was very soon crowded with good-natured passengers content to share tables with strangers...
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...We sang Nashville ,country songs, college songs, and, a bit sorrowfully~ Elvis songs...
...For he finds the teaching of Jesus on nonviolence as valid as ever when it concerns violence against persons...
...She pleasantly fended off companions until some young people she considered the proper sort appeared and she waved them to her table...
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...Of course, they of the Northwest share our history of exploitation, rapine, violence and despoil, too---but that civilized quality is real...
...That that ended badly was not the result of the Indian decision...
...Even the Indian legends do not appeal to great antiquity...
...it was only 14,000 years ago that the glaciers retreated--the land does not bear the age-old mark of man...
...The shining peaks of the Cascades were only lately active volcanoes...
...Their example set one of the engineers jiving down the deck to join first one, then the others...
...The variety in the crowd became even more apparent once the piano bar-type musicians got going...
...They responded to "Deep in the Heart of " and "The Yellow Rose of " by jitter-bugging vigorously with each other and singly between the tables...
...One seemed to be dancing even sitting down...
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...Sometimes their offer was accepted...
...Probably not...
...For I so often am not sure what things mean...
...Covers Marxism, loissez.faire capitalism, social market capitalism, democratic socialism, and economic conservationism...
...It is there in the border established without armed struggle...
...For the community "the adequate response can be nothing less than the restructuring of the entire social and cultural system...
...I observe Or shere them...
...Once started, they kept it up...
...Not far away sat a trio of pant-suited women, not Young, not old--women of the indeterminate age and kind it seems all right to call "girls" even in this feminist age, because they so clearly think of themselves that way--and why not...
Vol. 104 • October 1977 • No. 22
