Berkshire Sampler du lieu suivant : Pittsfield, Massachusetts • 17

The Berkshire Sampler, Sunday, May 26, 1974-17 A crack in the myth that profit is sacred been conditioned throughout our lives by teacher. preacher, boss and government and the media they dominate in this country, a country which rightly and vehemently abhors the practice of brainwashing. Most of the misconceptions and faulty judgments which we absorb and perpetuate are. of course. of tiny consequence.

but they underscore the degree to which we are conditioned to irrationality. Take. for instance. the rousing approval, as sure as flowers for Mother on Easter. with which we greet the finale of the July 4th fireworks display the set piece which explodes into a vast, grotesque pyrotechnic portrait of George Washington, an esthetic abortion which has survived from generation to generation.

Or, plucking an example from my own background, let me offer for consideration the unhistorical, inaccurate but obdurate belief held by middle class Jewish people of central European origin that "our have no capacity at all "for doing things with their hands." I remember that as a young man, when I somehow surmounted this legend and mastered the complicated technique of nailing down a loose board on the porch. hitting my thumb on only one swing out of five. two of my aunts stood by shaking their heads in wonder at this display of latter-day Jewish craftsmanship. They By Herman Liveright STEPHENTOWN, N.Y. A couple of evenings ago as I watched cultivated.

conservative and embarrassed Senator Jacob Javits (R-NY) grimly predict that the country is sliding into a painful I recession. I thought of a somberly reminiscent bit of drollery which apparently has become popular since the release of the Nixon transcripts and which I've overheard recently in three different public places around town. Someone points accusingly at his luncheon companion or at the bartender and demands loudly, with a Joe McCarthy drawl, you now or have you ever been a It occurred to me that even now, 17 years since McCarthy left us, a discreet friend would not be likely to ask you that question in its classic form, using the word instead of Or if the friend felt privileged enough to inquire. it would be in the kitchen with the water running. Automatic and angry rejection of the idea that there might be a better organization of society better, that is, for most Americans- than our present system of private enterprise for profit i is one of the many responses which most of us have been programed to make.

We've Miss Copeland, Mr. Leary wed Saturday WILLIAMSTOWN Miss Emily Day Copeland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick C. Copeland of Oblong Road, was married Saturday to John Roger Leary.

son of Mrs. Arthur E. Leary of Duxbury and the late Mr. Leary. The Rev.

Douglas Burgoyne officiated at the 3 clock ceremony in St. John's Episcopal Church, A reception follofred at the home of the bride's parents. The bride wore a satin gown trimmed with Belgium lace and a Belgium lace mantilla. She carried roses and lilies of the valley. Miss Joanne M.

Stratton was maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Mrs. Frederick C. Copeland Mrs. Niles Wheeler and Mrs.

Robert W. Stewart. They wore gowns of flowered chiffon over pink taffeta and carried white daisies. Winsor R. Copeland, brother of the bride.

was best man. Arthur E. Leary Jr. and Edward D. Leary, brothers of Moderne the bridegroom.

and Robert W. Stewart Emily Copeland ushered. After June 10 the couple will live in Cornell University; of the late Manand Randolph. ton Copeland. professor of biology at The bride is a graduate of Miss Hall's Bowdoin Brunswich, Maine, and College.

School. Pittsfield, American School. Lu- the late Mrs. Copeland. gano.

Switzerland, and Mt. Vernon Junior College. Washington, D.C. Her father Mr. Leary is a cabinetmaker for a conis dean of admissions at Williams College.

tracting firm in Norwood. He attended Williamstown. Duxbury High School. graduated from bride is a granddaughter of Mrs. Newman Preparatory School.

Boston. Edmund E. Day of Ithaca. N.Y., and the and served in the Army for three years. late Mr.

Day. who was president of one of which was spent in Vietnam. gazed and clucked in awe as if I were reconstructing the Ark. But the way that we are locked into a belief that our social system is sacred. even if a trifle blemished, is grimly serious.

Even at this moment of corrupt autocracy, police atrocities. dollar bread. ominously shrinking employment. deteriorating public services and a plummeting stock market, most citizens refuse to look at the source of our troubles. preferring to place their hopes in more Federal Reserve tinkering.

on-again-offagain price and wage controls, smiles and promises. But a crack in the myth, like the one in the Liberty Bell, may be developing. Did you notice the results, published in March. of a Gallup poll taken early this year in which a representative sampling of U.S. citizens were asked the following question: "If you were free to do so, would you like to settle in another country?" "Ten per cent of those questioned answered yes.

I don't want to make something of this that really isn't there. Most of those who said they would like to resettle in another country chose Canada and Australia as their hypothetical destinations, countries which are similar in their social structures to the United States. Just the same. 10 per cent is a whopping positive response to that question; it signals growing. basic disenchantment with our system.

And I'm remembering that in past era it took most people a long time to get over the idea that God lives in trees, or that the earth is flat. But they made it. T.G.F.S. Thank Goodness For Spring Thank goodness for Springmagnificent season that shakes from its mantle a bower of violets tracing the landscape with tones of pastel, sketching at will with a delicate touch all living things apple trees on the hill blossom blush. The marriage of Spring the sun.

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