The class of '79:
tain:, Jean Bethke Elsh - & Hellwig, Monika K. & Marty, Martin E. & Messbarger, Paul R. & Ahern, John & Zeik, Michael
SIX PROFESSORS VIEW THIS YEAR'S...
...not obvious, something that would make my Commonweal And I am aware...
...War would offer it the chance to externalize its off each other's masks...
...Neither his intellectual rigor, may very well be the intimidating effects of a family nor our nine-month-old child quite knows or under- tight job market...
...For our best do not lack convic- also be a lot better . . . God, make some trouble down here...
...not believe that technology can provide a solution to these Earlier generations thought they could teach racial harmony to problems...
...To say that won't stop do not repudiate such questions or, worse, arrogate to themthe practice, of course...
...neither elation nor pronounced reluctance, and they will go about their lives willing to renegotiate those terms whenever necessary in the same spirit of realistic compromise...
...Cambodia (not forgetting America's role in helping to set the Many of the class of '79 have had experience, happy or stage for that historic tragedy) have thrown irritants into what otherwise, of the charismatic movements, of prayer groups, of was, in some instances, an unreflectively held Marxist image student retreats...
...They feel helpless...
...Their personal amiability derives in equal part from that is in finding their way into high income brackets...
...So long as the class of '79, with the encouragement of Peter's letter seemed especially reflective and patient...
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...When they are interested in religion other time in recent memory...
...ships for graduate schools, are all really no better if not Perhaps the most cogent, direct evidence I can proffer actually worse than ten years ago, there appears to be consid- concerning the class of '79 draws upon my experience teacherably less discouragement and almost no anger against the ing a seminar designed for senior majors in our elite Social established order of things...
...Students may, into a search for a transcendental breakthrough, a consoling and do, admire others of a decade ago who put deep values first and ineffable high, suspiciously (and comically) similar to in their lives, but they themselves are not about to get caught in contact with the Absolute, which is strenuously denied in other the abyss of financial insecurity in the future decades of crises areas of life...
...SIX PROFESSORS VIEW THIS YEAR'S GRADUATES The class of '79 John Ahern: `Entropy rules' would go on forever as they are going on now...
...They are truly exceptional...
...They might be the first Americans ever to countenance openly Earlier generations, with an unearned innocence, thought the the deliberate suppression of the liberty of other countries...
...The class of '79 has no ship, nor the satisfactions of belonging to a community with a war to protest...
...Instead, they appear to have (Michael Zeik teaches in the Department of History at provisionally accepted the limited terms offered them, with Marymount College, Tarrytown, New York...
...I prefer to think the image is less attributable versations would naturally coalesce-so I can't be sure her to the students themselves than to this writer's inadequate experience is typical...
...And of course in this that act, admittedly somewhat casual, is sometimes pro- affair the educational institutions themselves have conspired...
...Their great, doomed wish is that things conversation...
...These questions, too, yield an uncertain acAnd maybe that is a blessing, considering the widespread, count...
...their God, by the way, is also alive and well, although weekly concern was to keep any demonstrators off the campus, espeMass-attendance has viral pneumonia...
...meaner than their parents', that the future will bring drastic Almost passionate moral concern is expressed on only two changes for the worse...
...that some of their apathy is probably due to the growing Consonant with this, they seem anxious to play the college discouragement of their middle-aged profs...
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...At Loyola of Chicago, which is neither These thoughts are occasioned by the assignment to charac- representative of the national student body nor wholly free of terize the class of '79, and they were further stirred by the its general characteristics, the class of '79 is simply expressing remark of a member of our campus ministry team who a perplexity that numbs us all, and finding guidance as rare suggested that the most interested readership for such reflec- from spiritual sources as from secular...
...It initiates an identifying pro- What to some academicians looks like a return to basics, to cess as certainly as does the genetic pattern itself...
...even study...
...As a sometime campus visitor, lecturer and remarks sound perceptive...
...It is to be hoped that somewhere in this class to come...
...bewildering potpourri of political, religious, ethnic and (Jean Bethke Elshtain is an Associate Professor of Political social commitments, although the University of Mas- Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst...
...They do they came home they brought the unwelcome news that we not think there is enough going around...
...Each lesson contains an knowledge of the history of missions, introduction, focus, prayer, textual the authors call on North American listing, guided exercises, and a sumchurches to combine word with deed...
...The lack of conflict with parents on important 13 April 1979: 203 issues deprives society of a necessary tension...
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...As a historian, parent, Christian, and seeker of public cupation with immediate and precisely defined goals...
...The seniors go-but on cially on a day when employment interviews were being held .mood, not schedule...
...81.On the average, the Marty clan is the class of '79...
...Quite naturally their response discipline, and heroism and sainthood styled over the cen- is a pervasive tentativeness, frequently to be found in a preocturies...
...Many of the world concerns are in a worse state gave meaning to its ancestors' lives, and which used to be than in the sixties (hunger, threats to peace...
...are career-minded, obsessed with grades for six days and on I would like to see more of them, and a better future for those the seventh they rest with bursts of hedonism...
...If rather mine "Who am I?" The latter question constitutes the key to strict standards have been operative, they do not seem to be these students' moral concerns for it cannot be treated without questioned either...
...But like their elders they prefer not to issues: energy and abortion, which both agree, by and large, is anticipate that moment...
...At ingly expressed conviction that, "The voice of the intellect is a my own institution, this year's graduates represent a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing...
...touchstone from which to defend the inviolable dignity of When all is said and done, persons are free and responsible human beings...
...Thus I find deeper interest affairs or an amiable and friendly indifference on the matter on in the question of "socialism and freedom" than I have at any a "live and let live" basis...
...Though the upheavals and demonstrations did not The ideals of marriage and sexual restraint are far from always originate on our campus or with our students, they were having been abandoned...
...Like its parents, this class dedicates more and more of its Since 1970 our own liberal arts college faculty in businesstime to athletic recreation...
...mary...
...They tend to be that already are visible...
...During the weekends, at dawn feel that with money and a good education, they will be on top and at dusk, the class of '79, like its parents, expresses and of these concerns...
...satisfies a need for self-discipline, asceticism and sacrifice in "Therefore secular interests are much more of a preoccupasolitary liturgies of running and jogging...
...It could be worse...
...They take it for granted that their lives will be poorer and can one identify a set of common religious and moral values...
...It has nothing to renew them...
...Compared with my own college contemporaries many aeons ago, they are distracted, they want Michael Zeik: `Likable' quick results, they are not for the most part interested in learning but only in the status and income that a college degree UNLIKE the hateful class of '69 which was lovable, this will bring...
...And this deficiency argues for me the point At least the new cults are not getting them...
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...The engineering students I know say that governthe South...
...They doubt the wisdom of procreation...
...found and always incalculable...
...The values implicit the sense that they appear to accept the morality they have seen in their restless and troubling search may be summarized by in operation among their parents...
...personal and political identities...
...During their college careers we have not once had to end As regards the sexual and spiritual values of our seniors, I classes early or close the campus down on account of demonconsulted-not willing to trust my own impressions strations that threatened to get out of hand...
...In the course of regarding the present possibility of social and political reform...
...It adds to the closing in on all sides of the forthcoming generation (us) there sense of perilous stagnation...
...We did not yet think Human nature evidently does not change, but human culabout thinking about anyone else, the subject had not even tures do, and these envelop and enshroud their makers and come up...
...Inelegant as the phrase is, we fairly basked parents...
...Sometimes "what everybody is saying" is closer to day...
...say that children diminish the world's resources, rather than The class of '79 feels no desire to go abroad...
...Ideals aside, the seniors insist that men, entry at the front gates to the campus...
...No life- freedom and democracy will not count, and they do not care...
...My guess is, however, that when a few years' experience has impressed itself on the class of '79, we'll find it THE EXERCISE of characterizing (perhaps unintentionally occupying a fairly healthy middle ground between trium- caricaturing) a younger generation always carries the phalism and disengagement...
...but many now found in work and family life...
...In some absent...
...do not, that is, scorn such will forgive me the mild indulgence of recalling the moment I, topics as irrelevant or anachronistic...
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...Dare we share Freud's touchT HERE is no single way to characterize the class of '79...
...Includes a war tax resistance and discusses biography of Menno's life by H• S. Bender and a complete index to the possible responses today...
...logical equilibrium or a dangerous degree of innocence is still, Spiritually, all trends run against "public morale," whether I think, debatable...
...In other words, money is more of a priority than 20 activity it recovers and celebrates the sense of struggle which years ago...
...I'll get mine...
...and education in the professions, large numbers of our students (Martin E. Marty is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished appear to have worked out a finely calculated program of Service Prod essor of the History of Modern Christianity at the segmented challenges...
...Most, during their college years on a Jesuit campus, about their own and others' uncritical commitments to one or have exhibited a pleasant curiosity about the church and its more variants of Marxist-Leninism...
...My hunch is that the class of '79 simply exposes to view a Commonweal: 204 more honest set of exemplars of human nature than did the based as much on a modesty of expectations as it was on any class of '69, which could pose as altruistic while setting out to extravagant regard for our own capacities...
...When millennium they think the cosmos is winding down...
...stands the subtle shaping influence on his perceptions or ours But I am being unfair, to my own students and to the of his name, Matthew, but of the influence I do not doubt...
...including myself) game and the life game according to the rules...
...While there is probably more pre- sufficiently involved that it made the normal conduct of busimarital sex than a generation ago, it is not all that casual...
...Cast in religious terms, a doctrine of morality on campus, whereas some years ago they would have personhood is being sought as part of the creation of a felt very heavily pressured to "get with the swing of things...
...Eisenhower: "Things are more like they are this characterization bespoke a rare state of moral and psychonow than they ever were before...
...They learned that their class and their cities bear an ment and industry impede the development of the technologies even greater responsibility for racism...
...they in a situation where university studies were more elitist...
...Only, please, not in my family...
...And he too adds that emphatic postscript: "Be aware, as I'm Would they help me come up with something cute, something sure you are, that exceptions do exist...
...social justice, not Christian mission or social justice...
...Religious against Vietnam, the ignominy of Pol Pot's reign of terror in interest in general is far less prophetic and far more personal...
...Things just aren't Martin Marty...
...We are too many took more than we gave, that our prosperity generated other dogs gnawing on a single bone," one of them told me...
...They are not angered over offi- re-examining the American political tradition, a la Garry cial statements on divorce or contraception and such matters, Wills's Inventing America, in re-thinking the question of because they do not on the whole take them very seriously...
...planned...
...it could a tone of cautious optimism...
...They are well aware that their lives depend on petroleum deposits in countries they do not understand...
...cerned about `getting on the boat,' they haven't the chutzpah to They are for the most part unashamedly interested in money, rock it...
...defensible, will depend on the leaders it chooses and creates...
...Americans have nearly irresistible selves a moral terrain too splendid to be shared with the rest of interest in cataloguing the national character, especially at that the population...
...Whether in truth save its own neck...
...Many campus Christian organizations, Common obscure misfits are taking advantage of this chance to look on Cause, environmental groups, have grown `old' in our the world as it is, without the filters and veils of their parents' eyes-with few exceptions...
...Earlier generations had the unforeseeable turn of events brings it face to face with itself heady experience of protesting an unjust and illegal war, and . and the world...
...It is my impression that students from such considering more broadly the nature of human beings, what it backgrounds are not ashamed to maintain their traditional means to be a person...
...What issues out of the larger world Perhaps that's a starting point...
...Have our nuclear-energy plants, in one If one compares the class of '79 with that of '69, certain short decade, produced so remarkable a mutation of genes and characteristics do seem to stand out in sharp relief...
...They are no doubt as large a minority as were the truth than is a clever discernment...
...Alternate hypothesis: our seniors are so con- whom I have had contact are not going to set the world on fire...
...I must say that many of chance to make the last decisions about, say, the environment their peers lead me to blush to recall the seedy crowd that my (there being no second round for the ozone...
...college gathered in the spare environs of a basement dining As a group, it is possible that the class of '79 has more room in Atchison, Kansas, to share for a last time the special sympathy for a Bakke than a Berrigan...
...Few if any of them are angry at the institu- and doctrinal truth...
...and, having no goal, it can imagine no path of effective action...
...It does not know how it relates to the past or the energy...
...One of my students tells me that probing, late-night conver- In general it must be said that the graduating class of '79, Commonweal: 206 while still casual, looks considerably neater than the class of sachusetts is unusual in the number of left-oriented radicals '69...
...their college careers on our campus, the class now graduating I am sure that the potentiality for student commitment is still have not engaged the administration in any major confrontathere-awaiting leadership, and a certain amount of drama...
...As traumatic as this may appear, and as destructive to a healthy learning experience as it certainly is, this crisisPaul R. Messbarger: `Nameless' ridden mentality has also a curious anesthetizing power...
...Historians tend to trust confirmations of them in housing units and classes, and share concerns at end of truisms...
...in the form of fashionable therapies, borrowed Orientalism of What is not a matter of contention is the fact that what for the most types, and Born Again salvationism...
...biographical miniatures, a strategy that would have warranted You want me to sum up...
...Social be seen as moral and even religious...
...When, after all, blazing exceptions among their peers, to people who violate was more happening than in the generation that gets the last the boundaries of the generalizations...
...War would have a strong appeal for a generaof shutting down the schools where they studied...
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...respect for persons" and find a receptive, if warily so, (Monika K. Hellwig teaches in the Department of Theology student' audience...
...and we are there'78, John '78, Peter'80, foster-son James '81, Micah fore going to be concerned about a `serious' future...
...She is the author of The Meaning vidualism, instrumentalist use and abuse of others, narcissistic of the Sacraments...
...Social con representative...
...It is not that they lack fellowship of our four years together and to hear one of our generosity or a sense of social justice...
...Thought Political Economy program, a program which inIn my recollection, religious values a decade ago were cludes among its ranks some of the University's most highly heavily prophetic...
...rights" and in attempting to bridge the gap between a tradiIt would be difficult to describe the moral values of the tion tied to rights and the socialist tradition without junking group...
...classmates and I were thirty years ago...
...United States had a unique message for other countries...
...When push turns to shove, they know that justice, future, and so has little sense of the present...
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...of their elders of a decade ago...
...These students are expressing more pointedly and poigdisarmament and so forth...
...consultant, I see mainly the exceptions in the form of students A brunch conversation and a couple of letters turned up the who pick up speakers at the airport, take them to dinner, host obvious...
...They do, of course, look (Paul R. Messbarger is Director of the Honors Program at younger every year, and their attitudes and performance look Loyola University, Chicago...
...The Christian one of them is, and campus editors always complain about prophets would observe that at last Original Sin is patent on all apathy and unconcern...
...The class of '79 is not we need...
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...The unanimity the late sixties is that we never finished a spring semester as of their observations impressed me...
...Religious interest was turned to the nantly than in previous years certain concerns which can only East, toward the exotic, the forbidden, the unexplored...
...sensate-domination, and dogmatic cultism also to be found among students-and perhaps even more representative than my admitted minority-the group of seniors I have discussed embody the kind of humanistic concerns, also exemplified by Jean Bethke Elshtain: `Search' Pope John Paul II, that retain a vibrancy our society's malaise has failed to altogether eradicate...
...sounding devices...
...But then I did my undergraduate studies in England one is likable...
...And morale, I will join those who will continue to watch for, be here the current stereotype may be useful: aware from early moved by, and nudge the group my clan keeps reminding me adolescence of the highly competitive state of job placement of: "the exceptions...
...Examines ALL NATIONS, you will receive the and elaborates on how He carries out dramatic impact of Mark's view of His revolution...
...The Marxists would say: "no chance...
...forthcoming collapse...
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...So long as the cosmos pivots on a mid-term grade, issues of war, I HAVE sometimes thought that the greatest power I exercise poverty and destruction of the environment, not to mention as a parent is the power to name my children...
...for their own values in any generation, thank God, and all As a teacher, I find that I can raise Kantian imperatives on generalizations are...
...world's material and spiritual resources are reaching exhaus- Yet this class is disturbingly like its parents...
...Perhaps the truest epithet would be "conventional," in altogether their own shared historic roots...
...tion, and our worst are not filled with the passionate intensity Send us a saint...
...They found tion that would like to act, but does not know how, that has no exotic models of moral authenticity in the plucky Viet Cong outlet for its dormant energies, that has known neither leaderand fervent Chinese revolutionaries...
...life and death ride on the second decimal point of a grade average...
...Our to cope with a fact their elders often forget: they may well be interpreter, a student of the classics and a Benedictine seminar- the first generation in this nation's history that is not licensed to ian, invoked for his theme a slogan very common among us, expect a higher degree of affluence or cultural status than their "Don't sweat it...
...ingenuous illusions...
...How one sees the class of '79 depends a great deal on the standard of comparison...
...The effect of vital introspection, keep their distance...
...more or less untrue...
...Who they have so little sense df a collective persona...
...Those with chromosomes...
...If truthfulness, honesty, what appears to be a growing awareness that to answer the sexual morality have been treated quite lightly in the world question, "What ought I to do...
...Their answer was that that was irrelevant...
...Like men on the eve of the first joined the Peace Corps, others became lay missionaries...
...demonstrators...
...career and happiness, tury, and author of A Nation of Behavers...
...generation at large...
...My recollection of overmuch-a few of my friends among them...
...engage them...
...In the small sample of my acquaintance, fewer of them among its student population...
...It is not, so far, even sed themselves to form a barricade against the demonstrators' entirely apologetic...
...The neoconservatives, who make a Some clan members are at public schools, some at private, game of fighting the Zeitgeist while they are actually blowing some at church-related colleges, so the six may not be all that with the prevailing winds, would say: why bitch...
...The exceptions happening.' . . . We admire the students of the past and their actions, but everyday secular problems concern us and our MY INTERVIEW sample included Joel '77, in-law Susan futures more than values, convictions, etc...
...and ness impossible...
...spiritually self-centered, too...
...They sound a bit like campus editors, which cern and spiritual depth are concerns of elites...
...that we did not go through college with any great events as those that confronted anti-war students...
...Some Entropy rules their universe...
...You discussion of religious matters...
...They know, but choose to forget, THE CLASS of '79 does not know who it is, or where it is that torture and tyranny have assured them a steady flow of going...
...is a trend toward future security in the professional world...
...That's not a bad exit line, even though the subject remains Monika K. Hellwig: `Personal' nameless...
...Violence, injustice, fidelity and able world they inhabit into a crisis from which it will be community are not words that figure prominently in their impossible to recover...
...Mak- its elders, pursues nothing but private morale at the expense of ing clear he was drawing on national, not merely local campus public morale, it will generate a culture in which the selfimpressions, he reasoned why '79 is as it is: "With the increas- centered self will continue to gain the whole world and lose its ing world crises (oil, population, inflation, crime) seemingly soul...
...tions must be the graduates themselves and precisely because Do they practice their faith with any kind of regularity...
...So far, no surprises...
...Undemonstrative in all such matters, the class of '79 sometimes revealing, but always slightly specious labeling appears to have a genuinely open spirit...
...I 1950s was a coherent and generally benign world has, for our am puzzled over the class of '79's patience with mind- current graduates, become unglued...
...They are impatient with disci- the current students are victims of capitalist consumerism and plines that demand or institutions that exact commitment...
...Almost a regret University' in California...
...Wherever it looks, the class of '79 sees inarticulate inner conflicts...
...Virgin- monstrators approached our campus this spring, students masity itself, endangered, is not extinct...
...They do say to the rest of the world, of which it is a little frightened...
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...But the six are also quick to point to fronts, and that it has led to a new blindness...
...tion that does not touch on direct experience gains little interOn a May evening in 1956 the graduating class of my est...
...Each course, each fragment of a University of Chicago, associate editor of The Christian Cen- course, carries definitive significance...
...but she is the blurred and even self-contradictory, a gray mass of indistinct warm and thoughtful kind of person around whom such conshape and voice...
...they are overwhelmingly interested in prayer and in under- My atypical minority of the class tof '79 is interested in standing doctrinal teachings...
...sustaining beliefs, secular or religious, provide it with a goal, They have no faith in their own altruism or anybody else's...
...sense we feel left out of their times...
...The Chinese and the Viet Cong have stripped common goal...
...Students sensitive to moral concerns are tional church, possibly because they do not even know enough deeply troubled by what these events and policies may say about it...
...Many people's misery, and that nobody wanted to hear our message...
...Although the employment situation and the subject, termed the "critical mass" of radical faculty at the the prospects of admission to professional schools or fellow- University...
...13 April 1979: 205 I sense that the profile emerging from this account is terribly sations on religious concerns are on the increase...
...til r/R Mark for the layman combined with a ,o e K >#'t d I~yr~~aKxt radically different educational experi- Ir ence for congregations and small Ii a ilk ltxp' grow ps...
...Some transform sport tion now than spiritual or ecclesiastical ones...
...recollection that the graduates of '69 may have had this as a It may be somewhat less fashionable, however, to point out hidden agenda but would have been ashamed to admit to it...
...Ambivalence is the term justice issues are not absent from our campus today, but they that best captures their respective states of mind and conflicted seem to carry neither the numbers nor the passion of '69...
...JESUS AND THE TO WALK IN THE WAY NONVIOLENT REVOLUTION by iirie A. Bender by Andre Trocme A dramatic presentation of the Presents Jesus Christ as a vigorous Gospel of Mark...
...For all their privatism, they are at least open to point of early adulthood when the outlines begin to firm...
...that they are running, fasting and meditat- "Finally I think there is a tendency for all of us to look back ing their way to that enabling vision which, for the present, is to earlier campus generations and see what they did...
...They live in secret terror that some the cornerstone of women's freedom and a moral act of mad gesture will plunge the precarious, declining but comfort- ecological responsibility...
...This can be accounted for in look "spaced out," fewer of them have dropped out and part by the presence of what Science magazine, in an article on refused to graduate...
...Jesus Christ...
...Traces ential leaders of the radical Anabaptist biblical and historical precedents for wing of the Reformation...
...It is my social apathy and economic anxiety...
...It These are the orphans of the Energy Crisis, certain that the has found no leaders in its parents and elders...
...The class of '79 is nameless...
...It turns with vehemence to physical economics has more than tripled while enrollment has been activity in search of health, balance and energy...
...Amidst the admitted predatory indiat Georgetown University...
...Combined with revolutionary who changes the world Swartley's MARK: THE WAY FOR nonviolently through love...
...By contrast, when a rowdy group of defrequently ends (even without pregnancy) in marriage...
...In neither group . tion...
...victims...
...less and less like the good old days...
...The search for new fads and musical groups is an escape...
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...The Soviet Union's barbaric Interest in Eastern religions is not absent either, but the attrac- treatment of its dissidents, China's "war of punishment" tion is no longer that of the exotic or the forbidden...
...The seniors don't make trouble...
...At the very least, they practice during the past three decades...
...about to deliver any homilies on the subject, or join any The class of '79 is haunted by what it will do when some crusades to right the ancient wrong...
...They are simply trying classmates describe what it was that made us distinctive...
...are their moral heroes...
...In physical stable...
...and I, for one, take a gopd deal of danger that it may reveal much more about the author comfort from that prediction...
...Whether it will give itself over to nothing that calls it to action, no model to imitate or reject, and aggression, and whether that aggression might be morally so obtain an identity...
...And that may give us a numbing or brainless sensations while it finds "boring" the second point: our graduates perceive a world not only less deeper mysticism, more jarring prophecy, authentic spiritual congenial but also less coherent...
...Our seniors see that I should better have spent my words on anecdotes and them merely as avenues to `belonging,' not God...
...one must first seek to deterthey have known, the standards are not questioned...
...But a theological assertoo, became a genre...
...They were almost wholly identified with politicized, theoretically sophisticated, and articulate stusocial justice issues of peace, poverty, civil and human rights, dents...
...than about the group being described...
...I asked a number of when they want to settle down, refuse to settle for other men's students whether they were opposed to the claims of the playthings . . . The double standard is alive and well...
...And for genuine moral heroes, they will take a "nonin the meditation it evoked, suggesting a general state of aligned" Mother Theresa of Calcutta over more strident contentment with ourselves and the world we anticipated, but prophets of social revolution...
...Left out in the fact that (John Ahern is assistant professor of Italian at Stanford there really are no major issues or trends...
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