CORRESPONDENCE
CORRESPONDENCE Who's Put-On? Toronto, Canada To the Editors: Apropos my note on the "ordination" of women, and the replies thereto [Jan. 20], perhaps it is fitting to point to the fact that...
...This was due, I think, not so much to the New Rochelle Ursulines themselves as to the backwash of a visitation from France by an ultra-conservative Mother General...
...JOSEPH GERARD BRENNAN Abigail McCarthy (eon't) lems of the poor and an awareness of the need for world peace...
...Maurice Rosenblatt, director of the Committee for the Study of the Electorate, is probably also right when he says, "In a period in which we made it vastly easier for people to vote, the impulse . . [to do so] is increasingly lacking...
...Johnson's observation about a woman's preaching being like a dog walking on its hind legs...
...The Ursuline Community had given the young lay faculty of those days remarkable freedom to teach, but toward the end of my tenure a certain tightening in the direction of orthodoxy set in...
...Marie D. Eldridge, administrator of the study cited above and of the health, education and welfare center which made it public, is quite right to say "Political knowledge and attitudes are not acquired solely through the academic process...
...But bigotry, no...
...MARSHALL MCLUHAN Centre for Culture and Technology University of Toronto JVome Dropping Plainview, N.Y...
...20], perhaps it is fitting to point to the fact that the user is always the content of any artifact (whether it is clothing, language, or motorcar), since this is richly borne out by the comments of your correspondents...
...Though Gershwin said little to me after I played through his songs, that meeting was to me as momentous as a brusque nod from H. L. Mencken would have been to young James T. Farrell...
...Back, if necessary to the repetitive drill, the sealed envelope— the State Boards—or to equally powerful symbols of the importance of the machinery of democracy of the best of the dwindling number of democracies in our world...
...One result was Mother Aquinas's mimeo to the faculty about visiting Chapel that I was uncharitable enough to reproduce in my book...
...The Committee for the Study of the American Electorate has been telling us for some time that the decline in participation in the political process as evidenced by voting patterns has been the trend of at least two decades...
...Luke 8:8) Even the question of the "put on" assumes a familiarity with the world of the mask and the persona as presented by Baudelaire and Pirandello and others...
...It is not ours to obliterate these traces," says Mauriac, "The contacts of life are ineffaceable, and no destiny has ever crossed our own and left no mark...
...I had seven happy years at New Rochelle...
...one may well ask...
...Shea's) over the years...
...A less important point concerns what the indulgent Dr...
...More and more people have come to question whether there is any relationship between the ballot they cast and the quality of their lives...
...My observations about the role of the performer or speaker as "putting on" the public as a sexual act, reverberates with Dr...
...To the Editors: George Shea's recent (January 20) review of my memoir The Education of a Prejudiced Man was very kind, but I should clarify one or two possible misunderstandings to which I myself may have contributed...
...Toward the end of my stay certain anxieties developed concerning my lack of enthusiasm for what went by the name of Scholastic Philosophy, and good-natured Mother Aquinas, the Dean, did gently warn me that my eclectic bent was attracting notice...
...Let us reestablish the necessary links between the how and the who and the changes which should come from improved attitudes...
...Promote how...
...I vote for putting a primary importance on the basic facts of the political process...
...There is no name in my book that does not stand for a line etched deeply in my memory...
...The media, the community and the family can certainly be credited with substantial influence...
...As a result of the Center's announcements about the political ignorance of the young, The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a grant of $100,000 to concerned organizations to hold a series of regional conferences to promote citizen participation in the political process...
...Without an understanding of the Constitution and the political process, however, those nice attitudes will produce no changes in society...
...I was not concerned with theology in my observations, but merely rhetoric and psychology...
...These are structural matters that do not involve personal points of view, even though they do involve a wide range of aesthetic awareness which would require a very considerable essay to explain...
...Shea refers to as my "name-dropping," particularly in the case of my brief encounter with George Gershwin when I was playing piano in a Boston restaurant during my graduate school days...
...So it seemed more nearly worth a page than the one Dean Shea regrets I didn't write—about whether I had ever felt "the faintest stirrings of desire" as I sat near "all those lovely coeds" (the words are Dr...
...The value placed on knowledge says something about the values undergkding that knowledge...
...Johnson intuitively grasped the sexual posture involved, but chose not to push it to the full figure...
...The speaker or performer has inevitably to "put on" his public as a corporate mask, and this involves simultaneously the three roles of the logos: the logos prophorikos (the uttered or spoken), the logos spermatikos (the embedding of the seed in things), and finally, the logos hendiathetos (the mode of inner resonance) : "You that have ears to hear, let them hear...
...I found no bigotry at the College of New Rochelle during my tenure there (1936-43...
...Still one must start somewhere...
Vol. 105 • March 1978 • No. 6
