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Good afternoon and welcome to deviate Journal. I'm so glad. Tonight marks the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover. The profile of this holiday is the first feature on today's show. We'll also hear an interview with the author of the tribute that you play which is open to Boston and to close the show commentator Lloyd lines will take a look at this week's news. Jewish people everywhere will begin the eight day celebration of Passover tonight commemorating once again the exodus of the Jews from slavery in Egypt. It is a time of thanksgiving for freedom as well as a time to remember the suffering which many people still in your. Eye to ceremonial dinners called seder is the story of the holiday is recited and symbolic foods are prepared with the mind of those celebrating of the pain and the courage of their ancestors. John Dryden back visited the temple Sinai in Boston by Rabbi Frank loft and friends are
preparing for a Seder. What's more you can tell me what. It right and what's moral and why do we. Why do we have celery what celery. It's great when we celebrate Passover and I gotta. Talk about Passover. I am. I am I
am. Yeah. Yeah. I am. I am. I am. I am. What I would try to emphasize is that the seder is a multimedia lesson
in the contrast between slavery and freedom. That's the task of the Jew who comes to a seder is to feel as if he was a slave in the land of Egypt. That he ate the bitter herbs that he made leaves the bricks out of the mixture of apples and honey and the wine that we call corrosive that he felt the salt taste of his own tears in his own sweat. And then he escapes and goes out into the desert and their experience is the freedom to be able to worship God in the way that he wants to and that the symbol that is central to this holiday is the matzo the unleavened bread. That is a symbol of the both sides. Slavery and freedom on the slave side it's the dry crust of bread that the slave eats. And on the other side it's the price one pays in order to be free. That is
you don't have time to make fancy bread when you're free and having a marginal existence in the desert. You have to eat what what you can put together very very quickly. For Jews during most of their history they were enslaved they were oppressed they were a minority and all kinds of difficulties and the Seder kept alive that hope of freedom and redemption. That it was a possibility every spring that you could come and announce that there would be freedom for Jews who live in America and who are free. It's very important to fuel the slave side of things that there are people who are enslaved. There are people who do not have the resources that we have and that we have to try to work to. People who are oppressed and enslaved. So that is the kind of lesson that I try to teach at the Seder that we have at home with second graders and third graders it's sometimes difficult to put that abstract notion together. But that's what's so nice about a multimedia lesson that youngsters can experience what's
going on in the Seder and have a good time and see and joke and be with close members of their family who are very dear to them. And as they grow older hopefully able to understand the intellectual and moral lessons that the Savior brings. Eat eat eat eat eat. Eat. Eat. I am.
I am. And I am. Meat.
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you people. This is what does it mean. Because it said it was imposed upon them. Members of the temple Sinai celebrate Passover. Psychological literature in the 70s has been full of studies exploring the
dynamics of interpersonal relationships love relationships between men and women have always been of major interest. Recently however the trend has been toward examination of relationships between women in films like The turning point. And books like my mother myself. Material dealing with relationships between men particularly between fathers and sons have been relatively scarce gun caused and spoke with Bernard Slade author of tribute now playing at the Colonial Theatre. The play deals with the difficulties that one father and his son face in trying to get to know and understand each other. That relationship in a father son I think is very complex. I think at the end of the play it's very interesting to me when there is a reunion that defied the sun reach out and touch each other and they kiss. It was interesting to me in watching the audience to see men cry
because at the end of the play Scotty talks to his son. I think as most fathers would like to talk to their sons and because of maybe a macho image or scar tissue that's been built up over the years that we never do. Ready say what we mean and we never ready to kiss my sons on the mouth during the course of tribute Scottie the father says to his son in the first act. He isn't anything like me. In the second act he declares he is exactly like me. Do you think that a transition like this is common to most fathers. Is the root of the conflict the fact that fathers want too much for their sons to be exactly like themselves. How do I answer your question why I found it with my own some of the things I reacted to most violently as he was growing up. Were faults that I saw in him that were parallel with mine. So I think it's not necessary that you want somebody to grow up to be exactly like you. I think that maybe you want him to. Be better than you. I have a very
wise doctor who actually I've written a female doctor in the play and it's based on her and she's she once said to me she said you know most parents the greatest fear is that their children will grow up and not buy their values. And she said what they should really be afraid of is that they will buy that about values too much. Unfortunately we always have the perfect child in our mind and I think that what we have to come around to is treating them as individuals. And Nancy's Friday's new book My mother myself she claims that daughters exert much effort trying not to be like their mothers. But ultimately it's inevitable every daughter is her mother. Is this true of sons as well. I think you really have to know your parents find out who they are before you can reject them. My relationship with my father who is now 89 and my mother is 87 essentially we have a
good relationship we really don't know each other they don't really know who I am in other words when I write a letter to them. I tend to write the letter that they want to receive rather than what I really am I'm putting on a mask for what. And fulfilling what they want to see want to see because sometimes to be totally honest with somebody it's a confrontation a catharsis you have to go through and maybe if it's left too long it never happens. Do you think that jealousy between father and son is inevitable. Oh I think that's definitely true. I think it happens all the way through. I think on both sides Christopher is a person who will say exactly what's on his mind. And at one point he came to my wife and said. He said it's very difficult living with you too because he said you know you've been married for 24 years your marriage is very solid. My father is very successful. You know artistically he's been successful in financially he's been successful he said how can I possibly top that.
On the other side of the coin talking about his youth that he brings home girls that when I was that age I don't think they made them like that I mean I wasn't I never met them they just they didn't they didn't have girls like when I was that it there's a certain factor that avi's youth that obviously you know if you're older you envy. What are the differences you think between a father son relationship and a mother daughter relationship. Why does it seem that it is so much more difficult for fathers and sons to relate than it is for mothers and daughters or fathers and daughters. I think its lies to because males have you know tend to hide their emotions. I think that but that women can experience an emotion and let it show and go through some sort of catharsis and I think that women generally cope with the present better than men somehow and theyre much more accepting.
Now the Lions wraps up the week's news. With the part of my past present kind of pressed immediately for his energy plan which Congress has had for a whole year. The president was we must have energy legislation without further delay he declared in a fresh message to Congress. I call on the Congress to fulfill its duty to the American people. And today there finally was action within the conference committee and subcommittee that's been dealing with the key issue of the natural gas pricing plan announced that they have agreed on a plan for freeing newly produced gas from the federal price
controls. This by 1985 if the agreement is accepted by the full conference as fully expected this could end the deadlock that's blocked the progress on the president's energy plan as he said for a year. The president pressed also for civil service reform and tax reform. Holding conferences with Congress committees on both but neither car showed much advance chairman of Ways and Means still found the president's proposed 24 billion tax cut a little high. The new Federal Reserve chairman William Miller just called it inflationary. The press secretary Jody Powell said candidly that the committee on civil service would rather not deal with it in an election year. The committee itself is probably the most difficult step in reform he said. They're influenced by special interests who want to delay kill cut the guts out of the president's proposed changes. The president brought his cabinet together to insist they support the administration's programs.
Once a decision is made a White House aide quoted him I will not tolerate opposition or an enthusiastic support from people involved in that decision. Senator Cranston called this cabinet session candid intimate and brutal and it sounds like a very natural reaction to the kind of criticism the president's been receiving is ineffective in lining up support for his programs. He got good marks yesterday from some of the big name business executives he called in to discuss steps against inflation. The head of General Motors said the businessmen were pleased with the meeting. We applaud in particular his effort to reduce federal spending. Robert Strauss the fast talking Texan who conducted the trade negotiations with the Japanese has been appointed by the president to manage the administration's moves against inflation. Strauss announced the first important steps he will take away to hold down wage demands and union contracts that are now coming up. One is the
Teamsters very big and very tough on another the postal workers who must of read the president's intent to hold down government employees raises to five and a half percent. The Federal Reserve Board has announced it's not on a policy of tightening the money supply which includes a rise in interest rates in loans between large commercial banks short term interest rates will also be affected. Chairman Miller yesterday confirmed these as first steps by the banking system. He added that development since the president's speech against inflation is very encouraging first steps and he named these as defeated the price below the burgeoning stock market the rebounding of the dollar from its low point. Everybody is moving in a common direction never said it is change the psychology in 10 days. Change psychology is probably as close as a layman can come to any explanation of the atmospheric chains that block brought a sudden explosion of the stock market with the record sales and booming
prices. This started with the dollar at its lowest point where the dollar rose first pushing up the market always pulled up by it. Economists seem unsure they agree that the decision of the Treasury to sell gold to support the dollar demonstrated confidence that brought in foreign investment and to domestic buying the stock market's most exuberant psychology blossomed while the government was announcing a decline in production for the first quarter to the lowest rate in three years. Just point six percent six tenths percent. But the explanation that the coal strike and the bad weather of February caused this ready acceptance that meant the cost was two months old. March said the Commerce Department was a good month. AT&T the world's biggest company announced yesterday its first quarter earnings were the highest ever. Net earnings up 23 percent. Housing stats and personal income were up in March so were prices to bring the inflation rate for the first quarter to just over 7 percent.
Secular events in Moscow is trying to revive discussion of arms control. It's been dormant three years. His talks with foreign minister Gromyko seek to develop an atmosphere favorable for more definite talks when Kmiec Oh comes here next month for a United Nations a session on disarmament. That visit in 10 would prepare the groundwork for Prime Minister brazenness expected visit to President Carter later in the year. The first half of events is mission to Rhodesia was an admitted failure but put in diplomatic terms as inconclusive and disappointing. The need for the effort events in the British foreign secretary David Owen had been encouraged by narrow area of Tanzania to try to bring the guerrilla leaders into negotiation with the new transitional regime in Rhodesia but they found a rare it was optimistic misled. There was no give in the guerrilla politician stand. They did clear the set up between Ian Smith and
the domestic black but it is totally unacceptable. So man finds the Rhodesian situation reversed instead of Ian Smith holding out against any change because the guerrilla politicians will refuse any part in the evolution of government that's already underway. According to the correspondents traveling with vans the hope now of the British American team is to separate and Comal whom they found more flexible from the intractable mug. And so it split the guerilla alliance. Some compromise they felt possible with them come out this divide and conquer ever it would seem to be a last alternative to accepting the black and white regime that Ian Smith has conceded as a transition to form majority rule. For it would not be acceptable American policy to get on the same side as the Cubans in Africa. Internal strains are reported between the new black officials and the conservative white administrators who still
control Rhodesian police courts and I mean what is their alternative to working out their difficulties is outlawing themselves with the guerrillas. The black traditions face a Hobson's choice. A positive legislative action this week on Beacon Hill. The House passed the bottle bill requiring that drinks be sold in returnable containers with deposits for return. This is an anti litter bill. It's been resisted by container manufacturers pushed by environmentalists. It's expected to be another two weeks before the State Senate acts and Amman has it and some other states with consequently cleaner roadsides and parks. Television has made news this week locally and nationally. Channel 7 was sold for 59 millions to a group who've been trying to get it from the general tire company for years. Included in the group are several black community leaders. Among them Ruth Batson and Roxbury editor Mel Miller
who will be a vice president with a role in presenting a black view point. Channel 7 then joined channel far make two stations here under local ownership. The National Action is my ABC to dismantle its anchor system of handling the news. It's like a system gains special note when Barbara Walters was hired for a million dollars a year to share the actor's part with Harry Reasoner. Miss Walters is now to devote all or actively interviewing in which she specializes with occasional sensational caus reason his role is uncertain whether he'll stay or go back to CBS. ABC will regionalize its broadcast centers adding Chicago London and Washington to New York and Washington will be in the national newsdesk instead of New York. Not that much news originates in New York as from Washington the rest of the country and abroad says Roone Arledge the ABC presenter news in sports this dissolution of the anchor has an aspect of a basic
change. Al says he's determined to make the ABC evening newscast radically different. The anchor people will go out on their own stories he says it's not necessary for people to sit in studios. We want the role of anchor people to change. How did you want to get away from the term and the function of the anchor he uses instead. The newspaper 10 news desks in this world as well operate out of New York and what ABC calls a special coverage desk making news with their interviews. Frank Reynolds will head the National Desk in Washington. Peter Jennings is now chief correspondent in London will head the foreign desk from there. Establishing a news base in Chicago is an innovation. It's had to be Max Robinson who is black. And as I got the Eyewitness News program at the Washington station WTOP. Khalid jumped the sizes that the Chicago desk is in a nationally central location not in many years he says has been on a network a strong
voice reporting news where most people live. ABC plans to inaugurate changes this summer. Howard K. Smith will continue his commentary from Washington Hala just himself a new force in network news. He was named head of ABC News and Sports only last spring after making a reputation and live sports coverage ABC in third place of three networks as he found it has less tradition and news than the others. And so it may be easier to change and change might make the news broadcast less synthetics. And that's GBH journal over this Friday afternoon. Producers for today show are Amy sands and Marcia Hirtz engineer was Margo Garrison and I don't. Have a
good weekend.
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WGBH Journal
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Passover, Fathers And Sons, Louis Lyons
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WGBH Journal is a magazine featuring segments on local news and current events.
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