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Toward Neoliberalism. Lutheran Cullmann, 53, is a great searcher for new meanings himself. Born in Strasbourg, he has occupied the chair of Early Church History and the New Testament at Switzerland's Basel University since 1938. Theologian Cullmann also teaches early Christianity at the Sorbonne, commuting to Paris for two days of lecturing every fortnight. Cullmann stitches busily away at his theological works on trains between Basel, Paris and Rome (soon to be published is his book on the Christology of the New Testament, and also in progress are a French translation of the New Testament, a commentary...
...lonely boyhood in Basel, started to learn Latin at six, and grew into what he was later to classify as "an introvert type with the dominant function of thinking." His first ambition was to become an archaeologist or paleontologist. "He's still thrilled at news of an excavation," says a disciple. "But we carry history inside us, too, and he's dug it up there...
...Brooklyn Museum, about half an hour from Manhattan by subway, was showing 200-odd "Masterpieces of African Art." Drawn from collections as far away as Basel, the exhibition was among the most comprehensive ever displayed. It was a delight of the sort that may result in later nightmares, however. Africa's master carvers were "masters" not in the Western but in a witch-doctor sense. Their purpose, mainly, was to carve objects for spirits to inhabit. Such artists never described, never analyzed, but only evoked. The spirits which African superstition demanded and African art evoked may be lonely...
...rest of the Swiss food industry rose up in arms, Price-Cutter Duttweiler matched them blow for blow. When his business branched out to Basel, the trucks were seized and drivers arrested. Dutti fought back in the courts and won. When, a year later, more trucks were seized in Bern, he showered the city with leaflets from an airplane, got the housewives to back him. As he fought a virtual street-by-street battle into other Swiss cities and villages, competitors set up a national boycott. Manufacturers who sold to him lost other customers, shoppers who traded at Migros trucks...
...dreadful thing? . . . The Church ought to stand quietly aloof from the present conflict and not let off all its guns before it is necessary, but wait calmly to see whether the situation will grow serious again . . ." So last week Karl Barth waited in his comfortable study in Basel, working on his magnum opus in theology, Dogmatics, still unconvinced that Communism is the "temptation" that Hitlerism was, still finding it hard to see any real qualitative differences between the Soviets and those rascally old American capitalists...