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...motion pictures. As produced for CBS by David (Prince and the Pauper) Susskind, the Bridge was cliffs-above-average TV, but it still creaked of banality, of too many artificial characters acting intensely about too little. And it completely missed Wilder's subtle mockery of Calvinist theology and his "animal repudiation of my father's notion that what happens to you is a series of express prizes and punishments from a minutely attentive, score-keeping...
Hungary's short and bloody revolution against its Communist overlords in October 1956 was a chance for the churches to make a break for freedom. Pro-Red Calvinist Bishop John Peter was deposed, as was Lutheran Bishop Lajos Veto. Staunchly anti-Red Bishop Lajos Ordass was freed from house arrest, resumed his post as primate of the Hungarian Lutheran Church. It was a year before the Communist regime of Janos Kadar was ready to move in again on the churches, but now the process is well under...
Collaborationist Bishop Veto announced last week that he had replaced Bishop Ordass as Lutheran Presiding Bishop of Hungary. At the same time Bishop Veto and his fellow traveler, Calvinist Bishop Albert Bereczky, were decorated with the Banner Order of the Hungarian People's Democracy, second class, one of the highest decorations available to nonmembers of the Communist Party. (Roman Catholic Archbishop Josef Groesz received the same decoration earlier in the month...
Applying the screws with one hand, the Communists did some back-patting with the other, deferred a scheduled 25% cut in state funds for the Calvinist Church. But inside and outside Hungary there were no doubts about what was going on. Said West Germany's Lutheran Bishop Hanns Lilje of Hannover: "There could not have been a more effective way of spreading suspicion against the Hungarian regime and its basic ideology...
Alderman Brigg and the new minister (suspect because he comes from the frivolous South) fight it out on the hard Calvinist line. The new man wavers on "those harsh and narrow dogmas," and the feud with Brigg is on. In the end the minister lies mysteriously dead, the peace of families has been ruined, the chapel is tern down, and a new congregation-with a softer creed has risen-and only then the reader notices that he has seen a picture of the inner life of nonconformist 19th century England...