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...answer would have been laughably obvious. By 1968, however, things had changed. A "new Nixon" appeared on television with the kind of polish that could sell a used car to an Amish elder. The inevitable question arose from cynics and supporters alike: How come...
...plants. This month Skyline will shift its headquarters to Phoenix, where executive talent is more plentiful, but its main manufacturing plants will stay in Elkhart. That city of 40,000 is the capital of the mobile industry, largely because so many of its residents are hard-working Amish carpenters who shun such secular organizations as labor unions...
...barefaced comedy is matched by the pratfall plot. Rachel, a chaste Amish girl (Britt Ekland) decides that since dancing is mentioned in the Bible and Minsky's Manhattan burlesque house is not, joining the chorus line must be all right with God. When her Fundamentalist father comes roaring after her for "uncovering thy protuberances," she defies him by jettisoning her clothes onstage, thereby creating the striptease...
Though he was raised a Unitarian amid the Lutherans and Amish of southeastern Pennsylvania, Updike joined the more middle-road Congregationalist Church in 1959. Then, a year later, as he was writing Rabbit, Run, the awareness of time passing pressed so closely on him that he felt a constant "sense of horror that beneath this skin of bright and exquisitely sculpted phenomena, death waits." It was a full-dress religious crisis lasting several months, and Updike says now that he got through it only by clinging to the stern, neo-orthodox theology of Switzerland's Karl Earth. In Earth...
...peace churches came to this conviction through Bible-based, turn-the-other-cheek idealism. The more than 100,000 plain-living U.S. Mennonites, whose best-known sect is the Amish farmers of Pennsylvania and Ohio, take their name from Menno Simons, one of the leaders of the Reformation's Anabaptist movement. Because they sought to abandon all church structure and live simply by the Gospel alone, the early German Mennonites were killed or outlawed by Catholics and Protestants alike. A century later, England's George Fox and the Friends (now 122,000 strong in the U.S.) were persecuted...