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I n the new play Twigs, the female lead is preparing a Thanksgiving dinner for a load of visiting relatives, and sighs, “This holiday is an awful lot of work—no wonder no other country celebrates it!” This line gets a hearty laugh from the audience, because Thanksgiving is a lot of work for the house- wife—but | also happen to think that it is the “purest” holiday of the year. What I mean by that odd adjective is that all other holidays are perverted by personal greed or national pride or ethnic vanity or commercial consid- erations; and Christmas most of all has notoriously turned from a meaningful religious observance to a frenzied exchange of nondurable goods. Thanksgiving alone has retained its original character. Except for a few turkey growers and cranberry dispensers, nobody is desperately trying to capitalize on this holiday; even the politicians have not been able successfully to exploit its theme, as they have everything else from Labor Day to the Fourth of July. It is a pity no other country celebrates it, for it is the one universal holiday, larger in concept than any one country, larger in loyalty than any one religion; for it praises the process of creation and the munificence of nature in giving so freely what we take for granted all the rest of the year. This is a bountiful world we live in, and we take more from it than we give to it. We take not only from creation itself, but from generations of the past, the fruits of whose labor we enjoy with almost no awareness of the pains and perils attending it. Such unawareness—such unconscious ingratitude— inculcates in people a dangerous pride, a hardness of heart, a false sense of self-sufficiency. Thanksgiving, in its own modest way, tries to remind us of how much we owe to forces outside ourselves; and how much all of us, regardless of sta- tion, are in the hands of Providence. Its singular glory is that it is, at once, the most universal, the most religious, and the most democratic of holidays. Sydney Harris Dist. by Publishers-Hall Syndicate
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206 From The Opening Editorial Statement In The First Issue of World | Edith are undergoing a vast experience in the de-mystification of tribalism. Old ideas of separatism and group identity don’t move men as much as new perceptions of human solidar- ity. What is happening is that the human race is fighting back. It is responding to the accumu- lation of dangers and terrors that could put a torch to the human nest. It is facing up to the bizarreness of gamesmanship applied to human destiny, and to the insanity of making the earth a warehouse for holcaust-producing weapons. It dares to think that ethics can be applied to the behavior of nations and that a time is fast approaching when men will not be ordered to kill or be killed. All sorts of magnificent notions are at large in the human mind today, and the most revolutionary notion of all is that the problem of human survival is not beyond human intelligence. This is not to say hope comes easily. It is not easy to put aside saturating evidence of spontaneous brutality. [t is not easy for humans to find their way back to one another in tender- ness and trust. For it is not governments alone that traffic in quick violence and the cheapening of life. The road to Mylai is not so far from Main Street that our eyes are free of its dust. Nor is it easy to live with the know- ledge that all the accumulated works and art of man can be expunged in a brief paroxysm of terror and madness. Yet the knowledge is taking hold that these things need not be. The starting point for a better world is the belief that it is possible. Civilization begins in the imagination. The wild dream is the first step to reality. It is the direction-finder by which men locate higher goals and discern their highest selves. If we can conceive of a safe and responsible design for our collective lives, we are already well on the way to achieving it. Hope therefore is on solid ground not when it is confined to demonstrated propositions but when it can spring out of sudden new perceptions. Hope may be fortified by experience but that is not where it begins. [It begins in the certainty that things can be done that have never been done before. This is the ultimate reality and it defines the uniqueness of the human mind.
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