"As soon as possible," young
Armen said.
"Probably not," said Nicole.
"All sports in the Olympics are different from this. This is not a sport.
This is art."
"How do you like that?" Ms.
Manusova interrupted. "Everybody has an opinion. Now, get back to work.
Two, three, cha-cha-cha..."
A convicted steroid dealer who
provided documentary evidence and testimony to N.F.L. officials last month that
tied several players to the use of performance-enhancing drugs was found shot
to death Thursday morning at his home in Plano, Tex., the police said.
David Jacobs, who pleaded guilty to
federal steroid distribution charges last year, began cooperating with N.F.L.
officials shortly after he was sentenced to probation in May. He was found dead
at his home with his girlfriend, Amanda Jo Earhart-Savell, who had also been
shot.
The two were found early Thursday
morning after the police received a call from a person expressing concern for
Earhart-Savell’s welfare late Wednesday.
“It’s a homicide investigation for
now,” Gerry Minton, a Plano police department spokesman, said in a telephone
interview. “We will treat it as such until evidence leads us elsewhere.”
Andrae Smith, a public-information
officer for the police, said in a telephone interview, “We have no working
knowledge of threats” against Jacobs.
“There is nothing that leads us to
believe this is a public safety concern,” Smith added.
Smith said the medical examiner could
make a ruling on the cause of deaths by Friday.
Darlene Duffy, 57, who lives around
the corner from Jacobs, said she was in her backyard around 2:30 Wednesday
afternoon when she heard what sounded like six gunshots.
“It was like a pop, pop, pop and then
a pop, pop, pop,” Duffy said. “It was rapid and kind of quick.”
Jacobs, 35, told The New York Times in
April that he provided two N.F.L. players with steroids and human growth
hormone and that they supplied other N.F.L. players with banned substances.
Jacobs said he helped players exploit loopholes in the league’s drug-testing
program. His case had received national attention because a Web site for a
supplements store he owned boasted that he had counseled several players on the
Dallas Cowboys and the Atlanta Falcons.
The Times reported in April that
information from the government’s investigation of Jacobs had led federal
prosecutors to investigate Matt Lehr, an offensive lineman for the New Orleans
Saints, who played for the Cowboys from 2001 to 2004 and for the Falcons from
2005 to 2006, on the suspicion that he distributed performance-enhancing drugs.
Lehr’s lawyer denied that Lehr had
sold performance-enhancing drugs and said Jacobs fabricated information about
Lehr after he refused to pay Jacobs’s legal fees.
At least one N.F.L. player was
summoned to testify before a grand jury related to the government’s
investigation.
When Jacobs was sentenced May 1, he
said he was willing to share names with the league. Jacobs said that N.F.L.
officials were at his house the morning after he was sentenced. The
investigators, he said, were “trying to find out what I knew.” http://Louis-J-sheehan.info
Jacobs and his lawyer provided N.F.L.
investigators with documentary evidence May 21 at a meeting. Since then, N.F.L.
officials have been examining the evidence to determine if the players should
be disciplined.
On Thursday, the N.F.L. issued a
statement expressing condolences to the families of Jacobs and Earhart-Savell
and said it would continue its investigation.
Jacobs’s father, David, of Jasper,
Ga., said in a telephone interview that the Plano police said they had little
idea what had happened to his son.
“I got a call from an anonymous caller
who said, ‘Call the Plano police department,’ ” he said. “I just got off the
phone with the police about 30 seconds ago, and they told me about David, but
said they didn’t know how it happened.”
He added: “I spoke with David through
a text message about three or four days ago, and he said he was fine. He has
been trying to rebuild his life. He got crossed with some bad things and made
some bad choices. At this point, I am just beside myself.”
The police said that while following
up the call about Earhart-Savell, 30, they learned that she might be at
Jacobs’s home and found the two bodies.
Police records show that in 2007 there
were three homicides in the city of Plano, which has a population of roughly
265,000.
In an interview with The Times at his
home in April, Jacobs demonstrated how he operated a makeshift steroid lab out
of his kitchen, where he would turn raw powder from China into steroids.
Jacobs began to manufacture and sell
steroids shortly after returning to Plano in 2005. He had been living in
Finland.
Jacobs, a former competitive
bodybuilder, said he had used performance-enhancing drugs until last April,
when federal agents raided his home.
“David was a stand-up guy; an
honorable man who directly and candidly confronted any mistakes he may have
made and was set to move on with his life,” Jacobs’s lawyer, Henry E.
Hockeimer, said in an e-mail message.
Since meeting with N.F.L. officials,
Jacobs said he had been rebuilding his life. He had been working as a bouncer
in Dallas.
“What’s new on your side of the
world?” he wrote in a text message to a reporter Friday. “Things here in Dallas
are pretty quiet, actually.”
Monastic orders and religious
congregations of the UGCC
Male Monastic Orders and Congregations
Basilians, Basilian Order of Saint
Josaphat (OSBM)
The founder of the Basilian Order
(OSBM) is St. Basil the Great (4th century). His ascetic rules became an
example for Saint Teodozii Pecherskyi, one of the first monks on Ukrainian land
who founded many monasteries in Ukraine. At the beginning of the 17th century
Metropolitan Veniamyn Rutskyi united the separate monasteries. He set rules for
the monks, which to this day remain the basis of Basilian life. This reform led
to the unprecedented growth of the OSBM. From the end of the 18th to the
beginning of the 19th century the OSBM suffered great losses for two reasons:
(1) it was totally liquidated in those areas which, as a result of the
partition of Poland, had passed under the rule of the Russian Empire and (2)
monasteries within the Austrian Empire were suppressed.
Beginning in 1882, the Jesuit Fathers,
at the order of Pope Leo XIII, reformed the Basilian Order. Basilians trained
during this reform became missionaries to Brazil, Canada, the USA and
Argentina. By 1949 the Communist authorities had liquidated all the Basilian
provinces in Europe (except in Poland and Yugoslavia). Three hundred and fifty
Basilians were sent to Siberia. Regardless of this great loss, the OSBM was
active during the underground period of the UGCC. There were many new
vocations. The order also continued to grow in Canada, the USA, Brazil and
Argentina, where there were 31 monasteries and about 250 religious. After the
fall of the Communist regime provinces of the OSBM were revived in Ukraine,
Romania, Hungary and Slovakia. Today there are 30 monasteries and 37 residences
in these countries.
Mission of the OSBM: pastoral work--
they serve 62 parishes in Ukraine, about 650 other churches, 9 missions in
eastern Ukraine; publishing activities-- the publishing house Misioner
("Missionary") has its press in Zhovkva, the publishing house Record
of the Order of Saint Basil the Great is in Rome; educational activities--
almost every province has a house for training young religious, a house of
philosophical studies, a minor seminary; Basilians are rectors at the Papal
College of St. Josaphat in Rome, they broadcast an educational radio program
from the Vatican.
Studites
The modern history of the Studite Monks
begins at the start of the 20th century. Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky
established the order to renew Eastern monasticism in the Church. The first
renewed monastery of the Studite Order was established in 1904 in Sknyliv, near
Lviv. In 1906 Metropolitan Andrey, as the archimandrite (abbot) of the
Studites, set a Typicon (rule book) for the order. Many monks were repressed
during the First World War. At the beginning of the Second World War there were
196 Studite monks in Galicia (western Ukraine), the Lemkiv region (in
present-day Poland) and the Hutsul region (near the Carpathian Mountains). The
monasteries were liquidated with the coming of the Communist regime, most of
the monks were sent to Siberia. A small group of Studites managed to leave for
the West and to found Holy Dormition Monastery in Woodstock, Canada. After the
Greek Catholic Church was outlawed, the Studites continued to operate in the
underground. In 1963 Patriarch Josyf Slipyj became the order's patron. In 1973
Lubomyr Husar, now the head of the Church, became archimandrite (abbot) of the
Studites outside of Ukraine. Today there are 90 Studite monks in 8 monasteries
in Ukraine, Canada and Italy. There are two lavras (major monasteries).
Mission of the Studites: catechizing
children and youth-- every year the Studite retreat house in Yaremche (in the
Carpathian Mountains) hosts 200 children from the Chernobyl zone; educational
activities-- the religious publishing house Svichado operates from the
monastery in Lviv as does a workshop of sacred art, Rozvii
("Unfolding"); other work-- cultivating medicinal plants, bee hives.
The monastic day is composed of 8 hours of prayer, 8 hours of work and 8 hours
of rest.
Redemptorists, Order of the Most Holy
Redeemer (CSsR)
St. Alphonsus Liguori founded the
Order in 1732. In 1906 the Belgian Redemptorist Achille Delaere, working among
Ukrainians in Canada, began the Eastern rite branch of the Redemptorists. In
1913 with the encouragement of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky the Order was
founded in Ukraine. At first the Order had its province in Univ, later in
Zboischi in the Lviv region. Eventually the Order was established in Ternopil,
Stanislaviv and Volyn. The Order spread devotion to the Mother of Perpetual
Help and Stanislaviv became the center of societies for this devotion in the
Eastern rite. In 1938 there were about 200 such societies with about 100,000
members. At the beginning of the Second World War the Redemptorists had 8
houses and about 70 religious. Many Redemptorists Fathers were later involved
in teaching in the underground seminary.
The Order developed in the diaspora.
The Ukrainian Redemptorists in Canada today have 6 houses, in the USA they have
one. Thirty-five religious live in these buildings, and there are 5
Redemptorist bishops. With the legalization of the UGCC the Redemptorist
Fathers resumed legal pastoral activities. Lviv became their biggest center
(the monastery in Holosko). The Redemptorists also opened houses in Ternopil,
Ivano-Frankivsk, Kamianets-Podilskyi, Novoiavorivsk and a mission in Prokopiev
(Kemerovsk region, Russia). Today there are 97 Redemptorists in Ukraine.
Students of the Order study in the Warsaw province.
The Lviv province has four confessors
of the faith, Bishop Nicholas Charnetsky and Bishop Basil Velychkovsky, blessed
Zenovii Kovalyk and Ivan Ziatyk.
Mission of the Redemptorists:
evangelization of the most needy; spiritual training of priests of the order,
nuns and laypeople, youth ministry; search for new ways of dialoguing with
modern youth.
Redemptorist summer program: Young
people work in missions, soup kitchens; they spend time with the poorest of the
poor.
St. Alphonsus Mission (Canada): a
Ukrainian Catholic community where secular young people live and perform
missionary work together with Redemptorist Fathers.
Salesians, Congregation of the
Salesian Fathers of St. Don Bosco
The founder of the Salesians was the
Italian priest St. Don Bosco (1815-1880). Fr. Kyrylo Seletskyi was the first
Ukrainian Salesian. Western Ukraine learned about the Salesians through Fr.
Seletskyi's book Fr. Don Bosco, his life and work (1900). In the early 1930s
Josaphat Kotsylovskyi, bishop of Przemysl, sent 30 of his seminarians to the
Congregation's general house in Italy. In 1945 Fr. S. Chmil was the first to be
ordained of those who had been sent. After the war the Salesians extended their
work among the Ukrainian diaspora in Western Europe. A minor seminary was
created, first in France and then in Rome (1951-1996). The Ukrainian Salesians
were especially active in Argentina. The Salesian Andrei Sapelyak became the
first bishop for Ukrainian Catholics in Argentina.
With the revival of the UGCC in
Ukraine the Salesians renewed their work at the Church of the Protection of the
Mother of God in Lviv; before the war it had belonged to the Polish Salesians.
Today it is one of the biggest parishes in Lviv, with about 20,000 faithful.
The only canonical Salesian house in Ukraine, with 27 religious, serves this
parish.
Mission of the Salesians: The Salesian
Congregation is composed of priests and lay people. They live together in
community. Special attention is given to youth ministry, especially with youth
who have been rejected by society. There is a youth center, called an oratory,
where young people and children gather for common prayer and leisure. During
summer vacation the Salesians organize daily walks for children and youth to
historical places or in parks and scenic areas. About 400 people take part in
these activities yearly.
Miles Jesu (M.J.)
In 1990 at the invitation of the UGCC
Miles Jesu ("Soldier of Jesus") members Tom Creen and Steven Ryan
came to Ukraine from America. In 1992 the first MJ community was established in
the village of Bortnyky and in 1993 another in Lviv. Today 14 members live in
the two communities. In addition to consecrated celibates there are also full
members of the community who are married laypeople.
Mission of M.J.: The order arose
because of the new understanding of the vocation of laity in the Church, as
explained in the Vatican II constitution Lumen Gentium. A priority for Miles
Jesu is work with the laity: retreats, generally conducted in the apartments of
the faithful, and "Challenge," a special 10-day retreat. During a
Challenge retreat the members of the community live together with the
retreatants, they take part in charitable activities, they invite orphans and
homeless to the community.
Female religious communities
Basilians, Sisters of the Order of
Saint Basil the Great (OSBM)
The history of the female branch of
the Basilians reaches back to the 4th century. In 1037 Yaroslav the Wise built
the first convent in which nuns lived according to the rule of St. Basil in
Ukraine. With the reforms of Metropolitan Rutskyi (1617) the convents became
independent of each other. After the partition of Poland monastic life was
harshly oppressed. Out of 25 convents in 1772, not one was left in the
territory of Russia and only two in the territory of Austria. The reform of the
Basilian Fathers, and eventually the renewal of the chapter of the Basilian
Sisters thanks to Metropolitan Sheptytsky, led to the development of convents.
Houses of the Basilian Sisters were founded in the USA, Yugoslavia, Hungary,
Argentina, and Slovakia.
In 1951 the Holy See led the
centralization of the Order and gave it papal approval. During the underground
period of the UGCC the Order continued. Already in 1959 new novices appeared in
the underground monasteries. Sisters helped the underground priests in their
pastoral work.
Today the Sisters are organized into 7
provinces, 3 delegatures, 3 missions and 4 contemplative monasteries. In
Ukraine, Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania there are 644 Basilian
Sisters, 155 of whom are in Ukraine.
Mission of the Basilian Sisters: the
Sisters catechize children, youth and adults in parishes and schools; they work
in charitable institutions: orphanages, hospitals; they are involved in
educational activities, they work as editors in the religious press, publishing
houses.
Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate
(SSMI)
The SSMI were founded in Galicia
(western Ukraine) in 1892 as the first active apostolic congregation of nuns in
the Eastern rite. The motivation was to address the problem of the particular
spiritual poverty of the Ukrainian village. The first house was formed in the
village of Zhuzhil at the initiative of Fr. Yeremia Lomnytskyi, OSBM, Fr.
Kyrylo Seletskyi, the local pastor, and Sister Mykhailina Hordashevska, the
first superior of the convent (her religious name is Josaphata). Sr. Josaphata
will be beatified by the Pope during his visit to Ukraine.
In the villages where the SSMI worked,
pre-schools were opened, the sick found care, young and adult women gathered
into religious organizations. The people loved the joyful and tireless sisters
of this congregation. Ten years after the founding about 100 sisters lived in
20 convents. In 1930 the SSMI received papal approval. With the liquidation of
the UGCC they continued activities in the underground. The SSMI spread to
Canada, Yugoslavia, Brazil, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Poland, France, Argentina
and Australia. Today in Ukraine (Galicia, eastern Ukraine and Transcarpathia)
there are 25 active communities of the SSMI with 167 sisters.
Mission of the SSMI: catechizing
children, youth and adults; healing the sick with natural methods; work in
humanitarian institutions, helping people with special needs.
Sisters of St. Joseph, the Spouse of
the Virgin Mary
The Josephites were founded in 1898 by
Fr. Kyrylo Seletskyi. The young ladies who formed the first house in the village
of Tsebliv intended to enter the community of the Sisters Servants in Zhuzhil,
but they were not received into the order. Fr. K. Seletskyi took them under his
care. The ladies gathered for prayer and together they looked after the sick.
In 1906 Fr. Seletskyi acquired some land and a building for the sisters and for
orphan children. At that time the official name of the congregation was the
Society of St. Joseph the Spouse. The Sisters conducted bookbinding work, wove
rugs, sewed and embroidered.
Beginning in 1921 the Redemptorist
Fathers, under the spiritual direction of the bishop of Przemysl, Josaphat
Kotsylovskyi, looked after the sisters. In connection with the internal
politics of pre-WWII Poland, the Society ceased its activities in 1937, but its
members created a monastic community. At this time in the eparchy of Przemysl
there were 30 monasteries with 180 sisters. The Josephites were persecuted with
the liquidation of the UGCC, but they did not cease their activities. Today the
main house of the order is in Krakow, Poland. In Ukraine there are 64 sisters
in 11 houses; in Poland there are 16 sisters in 5 houses, in Canada 14 sisters
in 2 houses, in Brazil 20 sisters in 4 houses.
Mission of the Josephites: organizing
and caring for orphans, they do civil work, in hospitals and other places where
the weak and the needy are gathered, they operate an old people's home
(Saskatoon, Canada).
Sisters Catechists of Saint Anne
The Sisters of Saint Anne were founded
in Brazil by Fr. Omelian Josaphat Ananevych in 1932. They were at first called
Sisters Catechists, Third Order Franciscans. Their goal was the Christian
education of Ukrainians living in Brazil. Since 1962 the Basilian Fathers have
been responsible for their spiritual direction. They have been in Ukraine since
1991.
In Brazil, the USA, Italy and Ukraine
there are 18 houses in which 103 sisters live (Of these there are 18 sisters in
2 houses in Ukraine).
Mission of the Sisters of Saint Anne:
catechizing children, youth and adults in parishes, schools, hospitals, special
camps: organization of the Apostleship of Prayer, Marian Society, Eucharistic
Society; work in hospitals, orphanages, old people's homes; keeping order in
churches and taking care of liturgical vestments.
Sisters of the Holy Family
The Co-founders of the Sisters of the
Holy Family were Father O. Dykyi and Teklia Yuzefiv from the village of Novyi
Martyniv (Ivano-Frankivsk region). A young girl had been with the Sisters of
St. Joseph in the village of Tsebliv. But because she became sick, she had to
leave the convent. Fr. Dykyi founded a congregation in Zhovkva with an easier
rule. In 1912 the convent was moved to the village of Hoshiv (also in the
Ivano-Frankivsk region). When the UGCC was liquidated in 1946, there were 78 sisters
in 20 houses in the Lviv, Stanislaviv and Przemysl eparchies. In the
underground the Sisters prepared children for first holy communion. They
actively worked in the period of the legalization of the UGCC.
Today in the Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and
Ternopil eparchies there are 103 sisters. There are also sisters in Italy and
Canada.
Mission of the Sisters of the Holy
Family: catechizing children and youth; they work in shelters and orphanages
connected with schools. The sisters are active in missions in eastern Ukraine
(Chernobyl, Sumy, Kherson), in Transcarpathia and among the Ukrainian diaspora
in areas of the former Soviet Union (Estonia, Kazakstan, Russia).
Studite Sisters, Holy Protection
Convent
The Studite Order for Women began in
Ukraine in 1924 at the initiative of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky. The first
monastery was in the village of Yaktoriv. The Sisters worked the fields, kept
bees, wove baskets, worked in orphanages, kindergartens and schools. The
published the magazine Yasna Put ("The Clear Path"). The foundation
of the life of the Studites is ceaseless prayer. In 1950 all the monasteries of
the women Studites were liquidated (except in Przemysl, Poland). During the
time of the underground UGCC 17 nuns entered the monastery.
Today the community has 63 nuns.
The mission of the Studite Sisters:
work in hospitals, orphanages, embroidering liturgical vestments, catechizing,
education.Schedule of life in the convent: 8 hours of prayers according to the
full ecclesiastical order, 8 hours of work, 8 hours of rest.
The Sisters of the Priest and Martyr
St. Josaphat Kuntsevych (Josaphat Sisters)
The Josaphat Sisters were founded in
the second half of the 18th century in the village of Bilii, in the
Pidliashshia area where the relics of St. Josaphat Kuntsevych were located. The
founders of the order were Fr. Timotei and Palaheia-Kateryna Bril. The task of
the order was to protect the mortal remains of the priest and martyr St.
Josaphat. The community was considered the Basilian Third Order. In 1873 Russia
liquidated the congregation in Pidliashshia and the Kholm area. In 1912 the
congregation revived its activities at the initiative of Maria Zavaliy and her
sister Anna. That same year in the village of Kizlov in the Busk district the
first novitiate of the congregation opened. The Sisters received land and
lodging in the town of Busk. Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky was especially
concerned about the Josaphat Sisters. During the underground UGCC the
congregation catechized children, helped underground priests in their pastoral
activities. The Josaphat Sisters were especially active during the time of the
legalization of the UGCC.
Today there are 36 Josaphat Sisters
with 8 houses in Ukraine.
Mission of the order: to work to
strengthen the Catholic spirit among the Ukrainian people; teaching girls and
women the Catholic faith, propagating the Catholic press. The Sisters also work
in schools and parishes, travel on mission, especially to eastern Ukraine; they
prepare youth for Christian married life.
Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent de
Paul (Vincentians)
Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky founded
the Vincentians in Ukraine in 1926 after visiting their congregation in
Belgium. The first sisters lived in Stanislaviv (present-day Ivano-Frankivsk),
taking care of orphans. In the 1930s the Sisters took care of the sick in a
clinic in Lviv which was founded by Metropolitan Andrey. In 1939 one hundred
and twenty four children from a Vincentian orphanage were sent to Siberia. The
convents were liquidated. Metropolitan Andrey gave the Sisters refuge in the
palace of the metropolitanate. The Sisters took care of Metropolitan Andrey
until his death in 1944. In the underground period the Sisters continued to
work in hospitals, conducting pastoral work there.
Today there are 65 Vincentian Sisters
with houses in Lviv and Ternopil. The Redemptorist Fathers provide spiritual
direction for the sisters.
Mission of the order: to help the
unfortunate, the most needy, both physically and spiritually. The Sisters work
in the Sheptytsky Clinic in Lviv, in orphanages in Lviv and Ternopil, they work
together with emergency medical workers in Viareggio, Italy, they care for
orphaned children in the Chernobyl zone.
Salesian Sisters, Daughters of Mary,
Help of Christians
The Salesian Sisters were founded in
1872 by St. Don Bosco and St. Maria Madzarello in northern Italy. In Ukraine
they began in August, 1992. Their general mission is to work at the Church of
the Protection of the Mother of God in Lviv.
Mission of the Salesian Sisters:
joyful Christian service, ecumenical cooperation, catechizing children and
youth in kindergartens, schools, special camps, hospitals, rehabilitation
centers and with foreign language lessons.
Sisters of the Most Holy Eucharist
Bishop Nicholas Charnetsky founded the
Sisters of the Most Holy Eucharist in 1957 after returning from imprisonment.
The Sisters worked in the Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Transcarpathia regions. The
congregation began with 40 sisters. They worked in civil jobs, on collective
farms, and they also prepared children for first holy communion, they prepared
adults for the sacrament of baptism. They gathered people for the liturgy.
After the Church came out from the underground, His Beatitude Myroslav-Ivan
blessed the development of the congregation. Today there are 35 Sisters of the
Most Holy Eucharist in Ukraine.
Mission of the Sisters: the Sisters
work in the consistory, they catechize children, teach Christian Ethics and
foreign languages.
Myrrh-bearing Sisters under the
Protection of St. Mary Magdalene
The Myrrh-bearing Sisters were founded
in 1910 in Krystynopol (Lviv region) by Fr. Yulian Datsii, OSBM. The
congregation was founded to gather the funds to build a home for orphans and
the poor. The first members of the congregation vowed to build two buildings:
one for the people, one for the congregation. In 1913 the first convent arose;
15 sisters lived there. In 1938 Hryhorii Khomyshyn, bishop of Stanislav,
invited the congregation to his eparchy.
In 1939 the congregation was
dispersed. In the underground the majority of Sisters began to work in medical
institutions. With the money they earned they sent parcels to priests in
Siberia. Not one sister in the underground left the community; they even grew.
After the UGCC came out from the underground the congregation actively helped
in reviving the Church.
There are 42 Myrrh-bearing Sisters,
with houses in Ivano-Frankivsk, Bohorodychani and Kolomya.
Mission: care of the sick and needy,
orphan children, educating children in the Christian spirit, care of church
buildings, adoration of the Most Holy Eucharist. The congregation is both
missionary and contemplative.
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“Swingtown,” a new summer drama on
CBS, is set squarely and pointedly in 1976, the year of the Bicentennial, the
year that America—having left Vietnam, having lanced the boil that was Richard
Nixon and not yet become annoyed by the President it was about to elect—started
to maybe, just a little bit, fall in love with itself again. That, anyway, is
one of any number of possible one-sentence summations of the time. By 1976,
some of the currents of the sixties—women’s liberation and youth culture—had
become mainstream; family men sported longer sideburns; schoolteachers looked a
little more unbuttoned; mothers started wearing pants and shorter skirts, and
going to work; and divorce had lost most of its shock value. Louis J. Sheehan,
Esquire
At the same time, the popular culture
being generated largely stank—and people just went along with it! It was all so
mystifying. And the clothes—ghastly polyester shirts and dresses with geometric
patterns that would give M. C. Escher vertigo. In kitchen décor, avocado and harvest
gold had shoved white aside. Let’s not even talk about the music. Movies were
one of the few exceptions to the horror; “Taxi Driver” was released in early
1976.
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