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...Egyptian burial papyri by Joseph Smith in 1835, this teaching resembles the Southern Christian theology that was used to justify slavery. Historians have noted that the Mormons, who began as egalitarians, were sojourning in slave-state Missouri-and having serious troubles with their Missouri neighbors about their free black brethren-when Smith's revelation was made known. The curse does not apply to other black peoples, such as those in the South Pacific, who have become members of the Mormon priesthood...
Keneally's narrative has the short, brutal rhythm of the ax, each stroke glinting with images of hallucinatory brilliance (in a flash of revulsion against his aboriginal brethren, Jimmie imagines "a vineyard of gallows from which hung all the inept, unfortunate race, emphatically asleep"). Occasionally, Keneally overheats his language, invoking the pull of blood and the core of blackness in a way that recalls D.H. Lawrence in a rant. But most of the time the novel's intensity arises naturally from the dualities that throb at its center -black and white, crime and punishment, civilization and savagery...
...Israelis, and not TIME, will determine the worth of their butchered brethren...
...with each other without getting personally aggrieved." But the experts have been under remarkable pressure this year from the giant docket of cases and the strains of a shifting philosophical direction. Even the affable Chief Justice was heard last week groaning about the difficulties caused when "one of the brethren packs up and leaves town early and then tries to conduct his business back and forth across 4,000 miles or however far it is out there." He was referring to Justice Douglas, who left three weeks ago for his wilderness home in Gooseprairie, Wash., and mailed in the final...
...what extent were the Santiago activists speaking for their Christian brethren throughout Latin America? In terms of numbers, radical Latin American clerics are a small minority everywhere. But in some countries, at least, they form a vocal, dedicated cadre determined to influence the masses through conscientizacion-"consciousness raising"-or as some now prefer, politizacion. Chile's radical priests' organization, which is led by Jesuit Gonzalo Arroyo, the congress organizer, is called the Group of 80-in a nation that has 2,500 priests. An Argentine priests' group, the Third World Movement, claims 400 members...