The Tampa Tribune from Tampa, Florida • 46

THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Tuesday, May 7, 1 985 Today's birthdays include those of American playwright and Librarian of Congress Archibald MacLeish (1892) and English poet Robert Browning Compiled by Tony Reid 2-D THE FAR SIDE By GARY LARSON Library plans a pet celebration 1865 Universal P(tt Syndic! Several women jazz composers are in the spotlight In the second annual airing of the "Women Composers' Project" at 11 p.m. on WUSF (89.7 FM). Featured on the recorded concert will be the premiere of a big band work by New York composer and saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom. For more information, call 974-2215. Day-long activities include a film festival, petting zoo on the patio behind the library's auditorium and showcase displays of various kinds of animals throughout the library.

In addition, there will be a working dog demonstration from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m., a dog obedience demonstration from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. and a story hour from 1:45 to 2:45 p.m. All programs are free and open to the public. For more information, call Tribune staff The Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library, 900 N.

Ashley Drive, will culminate its celebration of Be Kind to Animals Week with a Pet Festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday. The festivities will begin with a Pet Contest Run-Off for children through the age of 12. It will be judged by Mike Connell of the Rowdies, Bobby Rich of Q-105 radio and Linda Scott and her robot, Farnesworth 4-T-4, from Channel 44's Kids Club. Records Here are the top-selling singles from the current Billboard.

1. "Crazy for You," Madonna (Geffen) 2. "We Are the World," USA For Africa (Columbia) 3. "Dont You," Simple Minds 4. "Rhythm of the Night," De Barge (Gordy) 5.

"One Night In Bangkok," Murray Head (RCA) 6. "Some Like It Hot," The Power Station (Capitol) 7. "Smooth Operator," Sade (Portrait) 8. "Everything She Wants," Wham (Columbia) 9. "Obsession," Animotion (Mercury) 10.

"Everybody Wants To Rule the World," Tears For Fears (Mercury) The Northside Community Mental FacesFaces FacesFaces FacesFaces Health Center will sponsor an eight-week discussion group on improving human relationships beginning tonight at 7 at The Commons, 14039 N. Dale Mabry. Cost for all eight sessions is $25. To register or get more information, call French mammoth if i DOONESBURY BY GARRY TRUDEAU SOUIHATPYOU PO ummeoTHm, 1 HBY! YOU DIP BODY COUNT5.W0? TWO, stw.iwevtB.. ARB YOU KIPPING, MAN? VIETNAM ALL TUB HOUfS EDUCATION I CDULP THAT'.

HANPLB! I I I ALSO LEARNBD TO KILL, yni TO 6T WIRED AND TOKmi. ryo? BACK TO SCHOOL The band played and 200 guests leaped to their feet cheering and applauding as CLAUDETTE COLBERT and REX HARRISON swept down curving stairs into the art deco Rainbow Room in New York after their Broadway opening in a revival of "Aren't We All" last week. Veteran producer-director Josh Logan and his wife, Nedda, president of the Actors' Fund, said it was just like old times when opening night parties were unabashedly big and lavish. Guzzling the champagne and downing rare roast beef served with three kinds of pasta were actresses Patricia Neal, Angela Lansbury and Arlene Dahl, producer Morton Gottlieb and Earl Blackwell, founder of the Theater Hall of Fame. World renowned violinist YEHUDI MENUHIN can finally be called Sir Yehudi, almost 20 years after he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

The American-born Menuhin couldn't use the title because he wasn't British, but he was just made an honorary citizen. He's lived in England 20 years. Nuns costs, but "something that would put money into McLain's pocket is another matter. We aren't interested in that sort of thing." Channel 10 News Director Ken Middleton said his station wasn't offered the TV special, but he would not have taken it because Channel 10 reporter Jim Larsen got a one-on-one interview with McLain without a payment Middleton said McLain had mentioned to Larsen that he was getting paid by an Orlando TV station prior to Larsen's interview. But after Channel 10 told McLain that the station doesn't pay for interviews, McLain talked to Larsen anyway.

Channel 10 ran the interview as a two-part news report Channel 6's Luck says that Channel 10's news report wasn't the same as his longer and more detailed "TV special." McLain also talked at length with Tribune Sports Editor Tom McEwen without compensation. McEwen's article appeared a month before the Channel 6 documentary aired. Luck says he'll stand by his ethics and his McLain special. And Channel 6 may stand as the most generous TV station in the state, having given $3,500 for "an exclusive" interview from a man who would talk to almost anyone available who was equipped with a pencil or microphone. McLain From Page ID the cost of doing that kind of business.

That would have been cheaper than sending Charlie Rose (the late-night anchor) and a crew down here," Levine said. Representatives of "Nightwatch" could not be reached for comment on this issue. Luck said that because WCPX was going to sell the half-hour McLain special and "make a buck on it" it was only right that McLain get something because it was McLain's story that was being sold. Apparently Channel 6 had trouble peddling it. It was bought by only two stations one of them was in Detroit (where McLain was a hero 17 years ago).

"It was only designed to air the day before McLain was to be sentenced and was dated," Luck said. "It was offered to us and we passed it up," West of Channel 13, said. "But we passed it up because Andy Hardy (Channel 13's sports director) looked at it and felt there was nothing new in it. I didn't know at the time that WCPX was trying to make a profit off of it" West said Channel 13 didn't mind paying a fee for material from other stations to help offset production putdown of the old matriarchal religion. It's right there.

It's in the passages. I'm teaching Medea right now and Medea is clearly a vehicle of the old religion, but she is presented as being this horrible witch, as having this destructive power, of being And thus it comes down to us in Western civilization that women are carnal, evil, that to be connected with the Earth is to be connected with chaos and irrationality, whereas the good religion is the religion of Zeus and Apollo, the light, rationality. Thus we have coming to us from classical Greek through Plato that whole dichotomy and polarization of rational, irrational; light, darkness; spirit, flesh that Eastern religions don't have. And our whole Western civilization is based on that According to the ancient religion, the triple goddess, the nymph, the mother and the crone corresponded with the three phases of the moon. What Christianity did was take over the trinity and make it from an all-women trinity to an all-male trinity, which is absolutely illogical.

Anybody wtio knows anything about birth and generation knows that fathers don't have sons. It's mothers who have babies. How do you feel about all the publicity you have received? Has it been a surprise to you that the book took off the way It did? Yes. The publicity is a big surprise. I had no idea.

Everything that's happened is beyond my wildest fantasies. Some of the people whose stories appeared in the book were a little bit shocked and almost frightened initially because they thought they were writing for a small book, a small audience. The assumed audience for this book is a circle of feminists not necessarily lesbians, but a circle of feminists, women who understand women's oppression, women who understand how important it is for every aspect of our lives to be told, for us to open the doors that have been shut, to tell the truth that has been silenced. women that they can't have any control of their own bodies, that they have to go to a priest who will tell them what to do. That's not to say that I am anti-church.

I am anti-church rule against women. Within the church there are religious women who do good work. So if I say that I am opposed to the religious hierarchical rules, this is not to say that I am opposed to all those wonderful sisters out there who are working for social justice, who are working within the migrant farm workers community, who are working for a nuclear freeze, who are working for peace, who are working for women's rights, who are setting up shelters for battered women, who are working on child abuse projects. Did you leave the church because you realized you could do good outside of It? No. For me, it was an intellectual thing, when I saw what the church historically had done to so many groups of oppressed people, how the church had re-enforced slavery.

In fact, there are so many biblical quotations that re-enforce slavery based on racism. There are so many biblical quotations that keep women down, that perpetuate the secondary status of women, and when I thought about the Inquisitions, when I thought about the witch burnings, when I thought about what historically the church has done, it was impossible for me to give my allegiance to a church that had that bad a record. Do you think that nuns such as yourself and many In the book Joined at a time when they were' so young that they didnt realize what they were committing themselves to? That's right I didn't really make the distinction between the church doctrine and the good women the nuns who taught me in school who were the vehicles for this. That was the church I admired, the church of religious women, not the church of priests. How did the patriarchal society come about? I think it started so long ago that we have no historical record of 1L I think there is evidence within ancient literature of the patriarchal them.

One of them is a state officer of the Florida chapter of NOW. We meet and celebrate spiritually the Earth's changes the summer solstice, the winter solstice, the spring and fall equinox, the full moon. And we have regular rituals that we do in a circle. We have an altar to the goddess. Our deities and our spirituality are entirely female-centered.

Has your whole concept of God changed then? Yes. I think of God as female, but I think of god as the "Earth mother." The Earth is the mother god in much the same way that the ancient religion that predated the Zeus religion of classical Greek was a mother-centered religion, a matriarchal religion not the flip side of patriarchy. In other words, it wasn't women lording it over men. It was rather everyone worshiping life-consciousness, and the connectedness with the Earth. Several of the former nuns in the book are involved in mysticism now.

Why do you think that is true? I think we have a need for spirituality, a need for mysticism. It was one of the facets of our lives that was particularly important to us. It is still important for me to be spiritual, and that's true for many of the former and present nuns. But it involves the transformation of spirituality away from giving our power away to a God out there, up and away and beyond, who is this distant daddy who can never be reached, the angry father who gave pronouncements from atop Mount Sinai to an Earth-centered goddess, the goddess within. We really need a spirituality.

We really need a connectedness and a sense of transcendence that we are connected and that we can get out of the conscious world, the everyday world, the mundane. How did you come to see the Catholic Church? It's really appalling when I think of all the poor people who give their hard-earned money to the church for what I consider to be frivolous luxury, and to support an all-male hierarchy that tells women they can't practice birth control and they can't have abortions. It is so insensitive and so lacking in compassion for human suffering that a pope who is surrounded in luxury would go into countries and tell From Page ID I life within convents is completely a female autonomy, and that is true of lesbians as well. And so it was interesting to me to explore the intersections to spirituality and sexuality in two autonomous communities of women who had chosen twice in a sense to be members of all-women communities, and what did they see as the continuity of their life from religious life into a lesbian, feminist community and in some cases existing in both of those communities simultaneously as the present nuns are. Do you feel like the vow of celibacy means to be unmarried or to abstain from having sex? When I was in religious life, which was between 1958 and 1965, what I thought celibacy meant was absolutely no sexual activity.

I didn't try to redefine the vow. Nobody was redefining the vow at that time. Now, 20 years after leaving the convent, it's not an issue for me to redefine celibacy. So all I'd say to that question is for the women who are still in religious communities under vows that they have chosen to take, they have different ways of describing how they reconcile that vow. Each one is different It's complex and filled with anguish and ambivalence.

How do you feel now about your faith? Are you active at all In religious faith? I am not at all involved in the Roman Catholic Church or in Christianity or any patriarchal religion. I am, however, spiritual. I have my own spirituality that is more inner-directed. I would call it feminist because instead of giving my power away to a patriarchal God out there, I would rather work within a circle of women and within my own self, within my own consciousness. So I do meditation and I try to get myself grounded and centered.

It's more akin to Eastern mysticism or psychic healing, and I have attended psychic workshops over the years. I am very Interested in that I belong to a community of feminists called the Pagoda at Vilano Beach, north of St. Augustine. It's a community of lesbian separatists who live there, about 15 or 20 of AMERICAN BEDDING SAVE OVER 50 TAMPA'S OWN DISCOUNT BEDDING WHY PAY RETAIL PRICES I TWIN I FULL I QUEEN I KING SOLD IN SETS ONLY COMPARE 6 SAVE BUNK BEDS coanm wi atnnssfs MAO orthopedic 29s J39 J49B EXTRA FIRM un uh. uk imih ORTHOPEDIC FOR extra support '44 J59B 74" M89B mJimmmsnm u.tt uh.

uk ih.u WTMHtrwumnT tnnttm m.nitm mw Hwiw CHIR0PEDIC BACK AID 249 life Uft bit I Hi SEALY COMFORT CREST '49" $74 s99" '249 LbSlMalMfcwMM UH. UH El PL IH.UK REG. LOWEST PIICIS ON SMurosTNiirtoic TAMPA'S OWN DISCOUNT WATERBED STORE INTERNATIONALLY FAMOUS 8lno 1905 Columbia 332? JOSE GRECO and his Spanish Dance Company 4 tree Gift perfect! sizes 38 to 52 Elegant nylon tricot Inri MriMtal itaeklna (run. hMdboard. fttMd HELD OVER trm, mattrtM Comp4tty flrtthrt PLUS 2 FREE NIUnT TABLtS.

Ree. $449 A two-piece pajama In pink or mint. Long, flattering tunic top has three-button yoke, white lace trim and side silts. '22 $159i51bv COMPARE VJ M99 VJ TALL BACK BOOKCASE HEADBOARD WITH ETCHED DESIGN MIRROR. HEADBOARD FRAME HAS BEAUTIFUL CARVED DESIGN mtmeo wtth toxca HtADBOAftO Inct MOWtM dtddM.

Mtrn TuRrenl 4 ftttM) fcnif. US Fftff NtOKT TAB! FS num. 2o mr nooaon i'wn. (lip BamMMy MMri 1 otxni PI ins vm BTOUT BHOPPE UKtUMH MIM Herat 2 Dinner Shows Nightly 9 p.m. and 1 1 p.m.

VISA, MASTERCARD, AM EX, IAVAWAY, 90 DAYS, SAME AS CASM 4023 W. KENNEDY BLVD. S79-4303 S72 TERRACE PLAZA TEMPLE TERRACE 98S-S504 Shop Dally 10 to 80, Friday ID 1:00 RESERVATIONS INFORMATION 1-248-4961 (TAMPA) Also Appearing Lula Ortt and him Martachi otMamlco 7th Avenue from 21 it to 22nd Tampa 05 Cover Charge for this Internationally Famous Artist tiki 1.