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Gardner's book gives ample scope to the view that man is more naturally kin to Cain than Abel. Yet it is closer to a more entertaining tradition-the literary monster made real because he has been made so human. Variously and happily, Grendel suggests Caliban, grumping around Prospero's island like the first exploited colonial, Milton's Lucifer, that voluble, self-righteous rebel simmering eternally on a lake of fire, even King Kong on the Empire State Building, bemusedly plucking at those 30-cal. holes in his furry chest...
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Moral Truths. "We're simple people with a simple message," Humbard says, and his sermons bear him out. In his Arkansas twang and a blizzard of linguistic barbarisms ("cain't," "we's"), Humbard usually deals in congenial pleasantries about the love of God and what it can do. He touches doctrine only in passing. "People know I'm old-fashioned enough to believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God, virgin-born and resurrected," he explains; he just prefers to stress "moral truths." Though he worries about such national problems as drugs and pornography, Humbard tries...
...defendants are Mary Cain Scoblick, 32, a former nun and wife of Defendant Anthony Scoblick, 30, a former priest, and John Theodore Glick, 21, who is in prison for vandalizing draft offices. Other defendants are two priests, the Rev. Joseph R. Wenderoth, 35, and the Rev. Neil R. McLaughlin, 30, and Eqbal Ahmad, 40, a fellow at the Adlai Stevenson Institute of International Affairs in Chicago...
ANTHONY SCOBLICK, 30, is the son of a former Republican U.S. Representative; he left Phil Berrigan's Josephite order last June to marry Mary Cain, an ex-nun. (FBI men searching for the fugitive Dan Berrigan interrupted the wedding.) He has since worked with Wenderoth and McLaughlin among Baltimore blacks, earning money as a part-time taxi driver and janitor...