Editorial February 5, 1979 Issue

Roots for the rootless

Geoffrey J. Barratt

We live in times of headlong change—that is generally accepted. Social, economic, political, urban conditions assume new directions and forms, sometimes with startling speed. Disorientation of some individuals is one of the unhappy consequences. People feel they don't know where and how they fit into the overall scheme of things.

The questioning of all accepted values and the loosening of family and community ties have created an audience of people, often immature and lonely, desperate for certainty and for an allegiance on almost any terms.

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