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...inversion of expectations. Kramer, the ruling white, is the team's iconoclast, full of scorn for procedure and authority. He is expedient, intemperate, womanizing and often drunk. Zondi, the oppressed black who for reasons of race earns a modest fraction of his partner's pay, is a convent-educated conformist. By the chronological end of the series he is a dutiful husband, attentive father and slightly stodgy bourgeois citizen. Each is responding to his social position: white Kramer can afford the luxury of defiance, but black Zondi cannot...
...easier to strip. Consider Margaret Murchie, who is the guest of honor along with her new husband, William Damien, heir to an Australian fortune. Margaret has been linked to three mysterious deaths. She was the last person to see alive her grandmother, her schoolteacher and a nun at the convent where she went to atone for the death of the first two. Now she would be happy to dispatch her wealthy mother-in-law, Hilda Damien, who is expected for dessert...
...rile Jewish sensitivities. He argued the innocence of accused and convicted Nazi executioners and suggested that in any case the hunt for old, enfeebled men was of dubious moral value. An outspoken Roman Catholic, he enmeshed himself shrilly in a controversy between Jewish protesters and a convent they wanted removed from the former Auschwitz concentration camp...
...does the money flow in after reordination. The Phillipses support their family of five children on the standard priest's stipend of $500 a month plus the husband's pay as part-time chaplain of a Carmelite convent. Cash is not the only problem in making the adjustment. One wife told Fichter that parishioners, accustomed to celibate clergy, are very demanding and "don't really give much thought to the priest's family." One convert admitted he favors retaining the celibacy rule because "quite honestly, I think that the personal difficulties and family pressures outweigh the benefits" of the married...
Earlier this year Poland's Primate, Jozef Cardinal Glemp, objected to an agreement among four of his fellow prelates and Jewish leaders to remove a Carmelite convent that had been established at the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. Although he later backed down, Glemp compounded the insult to Jews, charging "Your power lies in the mass media easily at your disposal...