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...social sweep of Brideshead with the hugger-mugger of Rumpole, the overweight, conniving and lovable Old Bailey barrister. The novel's central mystery emerges after the death, in 1985, of Simeon Simcox, 80, Anglican rector of Rapstone Fanner, a village some two hours' driving time west of London. The clergyman's will contains a staggering surprise. He has left nothing to his wife Dorothy or his two grown sons Henry and Fred. Instead, the ardent Socialist once known as "the Red Rector of Rapstone" has bequeathed all of his shares in the family-owned brewery, which may be worth (pounds...
...prominent anti-Vietnam clergyman and sanctuary activist last night at the Law School called for a fair application of refugee laws for those fleeing Latin American countries which are American allies...
Eighty miles to the north, at a military hospital, an old pastor counsels a corporal. The clergyman announces that Germany must throw itself on the mercy of the victorious Allies. "Everything went black before my eyes," Adolf Hitler is to remember. "That night I resolved that, if I recovered my sight, I would enter politics...
Falwell's bellicose entry into the South Africa tangle produced an unholy uproar. A leading U.S. clergyman, President Philip Cousin of the National Council of Churches, said Falwell is "acting like a segregationist." Even the State Department appeared embarrassed. A spokesman termed Tutu a "recognized black leader" and a "voice of moderation in the midst of violence and repression." Last Friday Falwell said on CNN that his use of phony was "unfortunate," and wired an apology to Tutu. He planned further explanation on his own Sunday TV show...
PORNOGRAPHY. In Fundamentalist eyes, the press, the movies, and especially TV shows that feature sex and violence are waging a war against religion and traditional family values. The initiator of many of these complaints is Donald Wildmon, 47, of Tupelo, Miss., a clergyman in the liberal United Methodist Church who nonetheless exudes a Fundamentalist spirit in running the National Federation for Decency. In 1982, the group boycotted, with mixed success, television advertisers who sponsored offensive shows. Wildmon also organizes believers in many cities to get the Playboy channel off local cable. Sex on television, says Wildmon, "threatens the very continued...