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Smoke screen of patriotism
\"Sadly, even though our government's poor planning and countless mistakes (in which we have again and again chosen to rely on military might rather than diplomacy and true international cooperation) has left Iraq mired in sectarian violence, there has not yet been an honest and open debate in Congress about the war. ...
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Spreading God's word
In M. R. Montgomery's otherwise fine cover story, \"Practicing What They Preach\" (June 5), one sentence is most misleading. \"Preaching in the liberal tradition is no easy task for divinity students,\" writes Montgomery, \"except perhaps for Unitarian Universalists, whose sermons may be...
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OUR HEROES, OUR MOTHERS
It is hard to imagine any role in this culture the focus of more ambivalent feelings than that of ''mother.'' Revered as the source of life and nurture, mothers also are frequently depicted (witness the comic strip ''Mama'') as manipulative, dependent nags. Mothers themselves sometimes display such ambivalence. Ann Landers, weathervane of popular sentiment, has noted with astonishment the high percentage of women who assert that, if they had it to do over again, they would choose not to bear children. Certainly it has become less and less chic over the past 10 or 15 years to report one's occupation as ''housewife and mother.'' Some feminists, notably Shulamith Firestone, have even argued that biological motherhood is incompatible with true freedom for women. Part of the goal of ''Motherself'' is to tell the story of conception, pregnancy and birth from the point of view of the mother. ''Being born,'' says Ms. [Kathryn Allen Rabuzzi], ''is everywhere celebrated in myth and ritual; giving birth is quite another matter. Often it is simply ignored. From this major difference emerged the hero, who quickly eclipsed the mother who bore him.'' These are secondary reservations. ''Motherself'' invites comparison with Kim Chernin's ''Reinventing Eve: Modern Woman in Search of Herself,'' which offers a novel reformulation of the Oedipus/Electra complex as it is experienced by women. A woman's rejection of her mother and attachment to her father, Ms. Chernin has written, arises not because the mother is by nature a lesser being but because, as the girl child grows into greater consciousness, she is devastated by the gap between the ''primal mother'' who in childhood had appeared to offer ''the female ground of all possibilities'' and the reality of a mother who has been victimized by patriarchy and thereby devalued, exhausted, diminished, used up and tossed out.
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Toward Disarmament
In the past year there have only been two relatively small steps toward disarmament: The reciprocal cuts by the United States and the U.S.S.R. of military budgets last December and of the production of fissionable material last April. In this same period the arms race has continued.
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