The newing of America
McCarthy, Abigail
have survived, as a liberal Catholic, into an age when that foundation of the Oratory defined the man: to so love, and Center which is liberal Catholicism is threatened by attacks ...
...to him or her at the time of the agreement, with friend and foe...
...His pietas made the Cardinal impatient, no tolerance for those who loved ancient things or defended often furious, with those who had "itching ears...
...philosophy," explains observer the end have accumulated savings...
...It goes without saying that killed Chilean refugee diplomat Or- Generalcy of the North Atlantic Treaty that she bought her own car...
...If she does, each other get started-the tradition of agreed that we will be in a period of she certainly has little patience with the "the box," a simple but effective' upheaval-of "malaise"-until the end idea...
...Cynthia has constructive changes in top economic shared responsibility American workers, helped to buy three houses-her own, levels as well...
...John Cardinal Wright did not leave the classic liberal More than anyone I've ever known, John Wright had the Catholic tradition...
...apt to join in...
...It would immediately place him in children...
...Cynthia, a trim brown woman in method of savings and loan...
...They reinfuse a city with vitality, bring Rochelle Jones...
...say...
...was part of Wright's natural wisdom: development...
...And they do love their what Hercule Poirot, whose record in cause...
...She learned ALTHOUGH it is not as widely Bureau's, used to call the little gray cells, to drive this year in order to get to her known as it should be, the FBI has and it deserves a fuller opportunity for patients, and learned so well that she elaborated a whole new theory of application and testing...
...Probably the resources of the city...
...Latin Americans tend to who actually did the assassination fell . What would be his motive...
...By that she means that to have "a hand" in the box-or he may and thrift, to give plan and direction to they learn to work and to help from the have two hands and two turns if he deour lives...
...In fact, he probably II...
...those who draw out at children to exhibitions and museums...
...T RINGS LOOK rather gloomy...
...She herself is now helping to safeguarded for them by one of their ing to that malaise by mourning the de- bring up a second generation of number...
...things which are eternal...
...In the origgive new meaning to family life and to into their hands, copped a plea and thus inal FBI formulation, it would be to neighborhoods...
...visiting each other, hugging each other, Still, it was a remarkable exercise of How would the blowing up help that planning outings...
...There is an incentive to production-by teaching them to in- Things are not all gloomy, after all...
...her fifties, is from Guyana...
...HOW ABOUT FORD, NIXON & KISSINGER...
...It is not just that they stuck the FBI with tracking down the arouse sympathy for himself and support help each other," says a black friend of murderous agents of the Chilean military for his cause, which is generally felt to be mine who lives across the street from a dictatorship instead of the more agree- his own election as president of the veritable clan of the Spanish-speaking...
...Not a pleasant prospect...
...The FBI bustled into the case and was blown up as he was driving, like Another tiny minority is fast taking the while they failed to come up with any Letelier, from home to office...
...loyal Nixonian and first Ford creation, they are contributing to our well being...
...The in- from California made news recently by purpose and a sense of belonging, and are stitution of "the box" has spread...
...it left him, or at least it disappeared as he virtue of piety, pietas, in the Virgilian sense...
...One should not them (whether he was right or wrong on any particular issue, easily abandon traditions that have grown from the accumutheological or disciplinary, is not the question here) and at the lated experience of history...
...president to John Connally...
...Lord, grant him eternal rest...
...was to set up a real one...
...They play soc- level in the Japanese way...
...He established it "in the spirit of Newman" and set it among the city's secular universities with the hope and the (Father William Clancy, who was an editor of Comprayer that it might be a community where love of the church monweal in the 1950s, was ordained priest by Cardinal and love of liberal values-learning, freedom, civility, art- Wright in 1964...
...Moreover, ing classes this gear were Vietnamese...
...hardly had a chance to apply the ingeni- theory becomes when applied to the Haig Other new Americans are affecting the ous theory to much effect before the man case...
...sing when a bishop entered a church...
...The more you drive to excel may well lead to new starts As things worked out, the Bureau think about it, the more feasible the FBI for all of us...
...We have lost the edge-so they time they are small...
...They are a society of Guyans have bought homes and made our streets to life...
...crease participation in decisions at every ABIGAIL McCARTHY Just as the example of thrift inflects others, so must others be affected by the pleasure people like Cynthia take in work Of several minds: Frank Getlein and personal achievement...
...The not...
...You put twenty-five dollars those new Americans so often thought of erything they see on television...
...She thinks plains it, twenty-six people may agree to And, columnists and commentators, that we, of the old Americans, do not put twenty-five dollars each in "the when they weren't writing about the know the wealth of the possibilities of- box" for twenty-six weeks...
...The Spanish-speaking learn these matters is rather better than the the tradition we have developed recently 31 August 1979: 455...
...Each week, in the turn assigned cline in the American ability to compete Americans-her grandchildren...
...Her patients, for the most part, are terminally ill, and WHODUNIT...
...lando Letelier and an aide as they drove Organization, Alexander Haig, the last The Guyanans are a tiny minority but to work...
...quality of life...
...thrift in the collective effort...
...It is held and troubles of the President, were contribut- fered to us...
...says Cynthia, and adds thoughtfully, "I don't think it hurts them and I think they are happy...
...But Alexander Pope's warning in was substantial and what was foolish and fashionable in its "The Essay on Man...
...sidered to have earned the right, they are The advantage to the newcomer, deBut, even as we old Americans lose allowed to buy some of the things they pendent on an uncertain low-paying or heart, it may be that the seeds of our want or need under their parents' super- part-time job, is the availability of the renewal have been sown by some of vision...
...They learn they don't need ev- lump sum...
...Their attention and sympathy to their cause...
...and let faith with deep love and understanding of the world...
...navigated snow-choked streets with ease political assassination...
...asks Cynthia...
...The as burdens on our resources and institu- According to Cynthia, Guyanans papers have been full of futurists' tions...
...All should ancient traditions and values...
...To John Wright it seemed (and he grieved be- "Be not the first by whom the new is tried/Nor yet the last to cause of it) that too many of the "new" liberal Catholics had lay the old aside...
...For this perpetual light shine upon him...
...We have lost the "We are bringing them up the old some one draws out $650.00...
...Such views did not always help John Wright's popularity in Wright's great hero was John Henry Newman, precisely the post-Vatican II church...
...have survived, as a liberal Catholic, into an age when that foundation of the Oratory defined the man: to so love, and Center which is liberal Catholicism is threatened by attacks serve, the good things of the world that we do not lose those from right and left...
...He was not, as far had known it in the years and the angers that followed Vatican as I know, an admirer of the 18th century...
...Is the in the bank-does the bank let you take Commonweal: 454 out $650.00...
...Wher- the way he has helped several big corpo- at last receptive to the gift Japanese-ever Guyanans work their co-workers are rations bring about increases in their Americans brought us generations ago...
...He continued to love and defend be tested and tempered, John Wright thought...
...They're always Letelier's own friends and associates...
...On the when other Washingtonians were the automobile bombing in Washington eve of his retirement from the Captainhopelessly stuck...
...WILLIAM CLANCY 1961...
...Like Edmund Burke, he believed same time to reach out to love the world...
...He is said capacity to innovate, to take joy in work way," she says...
...But, I think, they kept him wise because Newman combined deep love of and loyalty to the and made him great...
...When they are con- cides to put in more each week...
...Of several minds: Abigail McCarthy television going to pay for it...
...and he often seemed unable to distinguish between what hated it for its rationalism...
...Cynthia works as a ha'irdresser's assistant most of the time, but she found time to take a course in practical nursing and now is on THE BOMBING OF HAIG call several nights a week...
...able task of hanging the murders on United States or possibly as vice"The enjoy each other...
...My son, my daughter-we brought them up that way-and they are THE MEWING OF AMERICA happy...
...They have what they want-good NEW CITIZENS, NEW SPIRIT jobs, their own homes, good chances for their children...
...Unlike lead in scholastic achievement...
...The occasion was As it happens, we have one...
...The FBI professional bombers, detonation exnote, in those areas in which we are said theory was that Letelier had blown him- perts and other dynamiters, Haig was in a to be lagging-in engineering and the self up, or, that his fellow Chilean refu- much easier position to set up a pseudotechnological sciences, in mathematics gees had blown him up in order to attract assassination,attempt than poor Letelier and in business administration...
...I don't know if Cynthia, for exam- bring to this country a tradition of helping reports recently, almost all of them ple, knows of this malaise...
...Since 1968 he has been Provost of the Oratmight come together...
...cer in the parks, organize and attend free Japanese have little use for individual Those who draw out first are borrowing concerts, gradually begin to take their responsibility, the 'buck-stops-here' and paying back...
...groups and within the groups lies shared other investments with the help of their New Americans are bringing about responsibility for decisions...
...A Japanese-American alienated of late, are regaining a sense of her daughter's and her son's...
...she takes pride in making them comfortable and in comforting them...
...Bishop, Cardinal, Friend: reason he established an Oratory in his diocese of Pittsburgh in Farewell...
...As she exof the century...
...To the end he was that the man who marries the spirit of the age will soon be a Sacerdos et Pontifex, Priest and Bridgebuilder, as we used to widower...
...In such start from "the box...
...An as- suspects, they came up almost at once Letelier, Haig was unharmed by the car tonishing number of the top-ranking stu- with a new theory about that kind of blast, a circumstance that makes the FBI dents in university and college graduat- crime and managed to peddle it to a nor- theory even more attractive...
...mally somewhat discriminating, respect- as the commander of vast numbers of They tended to excel, it is interesting to able Washington newspaper...
...Certainly not without paying for it...
...As much as anything else he did, his ory, Pittsburgh...
Vol. 106 • August 1979 • No. 15
