Texas Gulf Coast Register (Corpus Christi, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, January 16, 1970 Page: 4 of 6
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On the Other Hand
Victims
Of Affluence
By Dolores Curran
"I have not yet, indeed, thought of a
remedy for luxury. . . wrote Benjamin
Franklin a long time ago. His phrase
came back to me the other night when at
a typical gathering the usual subject of
today’s youth came up anti a typical fa-
ther began a typical tirade.
^'Today’s kids have it too good If they
had to work like we did, they would ap-
preciate things. They never had to work
at anything. They’ve had everything
they’ve wanted since they were babies.”
and ignored the next day, we blow up,
"You just don’t appreciate things,” we
emote. "You’ve had it too good. Well,
there’s going to be no more new toys
around here. . . .” and we spend the rest,
of the week sneaking out of our threat.
We are a nation of Depression parents
who simultaneously smother our children
with plastic plenty and resent them for
not appreciating it. We can’t stop our-
selves, so we blame our children for our
spinelessness.
EVERYONE NODDED and the sub-
ject passed on to inflation, new cars and
other pertinent issues. Once, just once, I
would like to be rude at the end of this
kind of righteous parental prattle and ask,
"Who gives our kids all these things?”
We do all kinds of verbal finger-wag-
ging at some nameless villain who show-
ers our kids with lollipops and motorcycles
without openly admitting that we are the
culprits. Our children are merely the vic-
tims of our affluence.
If we parents don’t begin admitting
that we’re weak hypocritical Christians in
our homes, our children will begin telling
us. Harsh words? Yes, but not unfair.
Today’s middle-class (is there any other
kind?) parent buys his child just about
everything he wants and much he doesn’t
want. He finds himself in the absurd posi-
tion of coaxing his child to take ice skat-
, ing lessons, of persuading him he needs a
certain book, and of begging him to show
interest in new clothes.
LAST SPRING my first-grader
brought home the notice of a children’s
play. I never got to see live theater (or
dead, for that matter) when I was a child
so I immediately tucked a dollar in an
envelope for her to get tickets. She got
them and lostQLhem and I blew up with
the typical tirade, ending with a familiar,
"Well, there will be no more plays. . . .”
She acted her part well by hanging her
head and not saying anything for five
minutes, a real feat.
The following weekend we happened to
be outside when children came streaming
home from the play. She eyed me cau-
tiously and said, "You know, I was afraid
to say it before, but I didn’t really want to
go to that play in the first place.”
Dumb, dumb mother! Our children are
too young to solve our problems. She didn’t
want to go but I was so happy that she
could go, 1, never asked her if she wanted
to. It was probably a relief to her when
she lost the tickets.
AT THE SAME TIME we parents do
this we realize we’re guilty of projecting
our wants upon our children. We rational-
ize that we are working hard to furnish
our children with all kinds of opportuni-
ties while deep down we know the child
doesn’t care about them.
Generally the child is sensitive enough
to our needs to show a fake enthusiasm
over a $19 coat or $3 game that we have
foisted upon him. But after a short life-
time of over-accumulation of junk, he be-
comes inundated with things and doesn’t
value them very much.
When we find that $3 game trod upon
IT TAUGHT ME WELL. Fu he past
six months, at least, I haven’t tried to sell
my children on anything, not 4-H or new
sneakers or pogo sticks (all those things I
didn’t have). We’re discovering that anxie-
ty is good for them.
We let Beth worry for two weeks over
whether she could join Brownies. When
we said, "Maybe,” she kept her room clean
for three days, and when we said, "Yes,”
she was so elated she gave- 4-year-old
Mike two bushels of plastic junk.
Mike is saving it to give to the baby
the day we say he can become a garbage
collector. Right now we’re letting him
stew about it.
• Enough to see Christ suffering
in this little girl’s poverty?
• Ei^cmgh to realize that she represen
%rds of the world who go to bed hungry each night?
• Enough to want to do something about it?
Please show your Love...
...by sending your check today.
SALVATION AND SERVICE ARE THE WORK OF
THE SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH
SEND YOUR GIFT TO
The Right Reverend Edward T. O'Meara Reverend Richard Shirley
National Director Diocesan Director
on
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New York, New York 10001
620 Lipan St.
Corpus Christi, Texas 78401
☆ ☆
Media Spectrum
*Top Film9 Survey By b,„ oonneiiy
Critics are exactly the kind of people
who go around telling you that you
shouldn’t keep up with the Jones. But
at the end of the year, what do they
do? Every last one of them writes a col-
umn describing the ten best films of the
year. If you want to be in the club, you
just have to do it. Thus, by wav of pay-
ing my dues I’m going to do just that.
In alphabetical order, my recommenda-
tions are.
Alice's Restaurant, which director Ar-
thur Penn developed from a popular song.
In a fluid, cinematic, lyric style Alice’s
Restaurant explored a subculture which is
more and more becoming our dominant
culture. There are very funny scenes such
as the sequence at the Army Induction
Center and touching scenes such as the
night when Alice escapes from her res-
taurant. What might concern us is the
fact that the film takes the softer drugs
for granted. But at the same time, this
film explodes the myth of the commune.
It ends up with the classic statement of
American individualism and responsibility
and makes it stick in a way that Es-
tablishment preaching will never do.
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice does
much the same thing for the current rash
of sensitivity. If there were an Oscar for
a comedy film, this would get it. It is
about the people caught in the generation
gap ar.d since I have the impression that
most of us are in that spot (even though
we’re not a majority), I was delighted to
find a film which sympathized with us. It
also has scenes you won’t soon forget.
Easy Rider is a personal, lyric film
which suggests that the younger genera-
tion might be reviving the American
dream which we have lost. There are
flaws in the film and its ending is a lit-
tle gratuitous, but the long lines outside
the theaters should be a clue that the
film captures enough of the current scene
to tell us where a great number of people
are-
If is an English film which is full of
symbolism but also more reality than we
are usually willing to accept. See it be-
cause our schools are getting very close
to being the kind If explores and we may
be in for the same kind of exp’osion.
Last Summer was described by a 16-
year-old girl I know as being the "way it
is.” She is the kind of girl we would all
like as a daughter and this leads me not
to discount her recommendation. The film
recalls things which I remember, and I
was interested to discover on one level
that things haven’t changed. On another
level, I was shocked and disturbed. Trag-
edy doesn’t get better with age.
Marooned is a great, big, melodramatic
old movie in a new setting and I thor-
oughly enjoyed it.
Medium Cool suggests tha,t Vice Presi-
dent Agnew’s attack on the press is justi-
fied but for the wrong reasons. The film
introduces new techniques which take on
the journalists and politicians without
losing the simple human values generally
overlooked by crusaders.
Midnight Cowboy is a critical appraisal
of the American dream and how much it
costs. It is worth seeing if only for the
acting by Voight and Hoffman. Its theme
is loneliness. but it is a loneliness which
could only happen in America.
Oh, What a Lovely War is both fun
and a challenge. It is the only musical
I ve really enjoyed all year and it was
done for an infinitesmal percentage of the
budget of a gross blunder like Hello
Dolly.
My last choice creates a prohlem be-
cause both True Grit and The Wild
Bunch come out even both cinematically
and alphabetically. It could all be solved
with The Reivers, but this film deserves a
full review.
With my back against the wall, I
choos° The Wild Bunch because it is the
most athletic, energetic and personally
designed film of the vea’*. It opens up a
whole debate about violence but there is
violence in all the films discussed so far.
For the benefit of all of us, I may not
like to see it tried again, but as sheer
film The Wild Bunch might be the best
of the year.
3 Golconda
Clergy Get
Suspended
BOGOTA - (LP) - Co-
lombian priests jailed in
October and subsequently
suspended by their bishops
have opted to obey and
leave their parishes.
Three of the four "rebel
priests” from the progres-
sive Golconda Movement,
arrested for allegedly
trying to take over the
University of Medellin, are
under suspension from
their priestly ministry.
One, Father Manuel Al-
zate of Cali, was dismissed
from his parish by Arch-
bishop Alberto Uribe Ur-
daneta only a few days
after his arrest.
The other two Golconda
priests flew back to their
parishes in Bogota Nov. 16
and worked there 15 days
before being dismissed and
suspended. The two priests,
Rene Garcia and Luis Cur-
rea, are cousins.
The jailing of the priests
could be a result of the
increased election activity
by the Golconda Move-
ment. The movement is
trying to organize a cam-
paign to get voters to ab-
stain from the 1970 presi-
dential elections as a
.public protest against the
present political system.
(Under a working agree-
ment, the country’s two
major political parties al-
ternate presidential terms
by always supporting the
same candidate. A Conser--
vative candidate should be
elected in 1970.)
The movement, founded
a year ago this month,
takes it name from the
Golconda Farm where the
first meeting was held.
Originally, the group was
composed of Bishop Gerar-
do Valencia Cano of Buen-
aventura, considered its
leader, and 49 priests. It
now boasts several thou-
sand members, mainly
workers and university
students.
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