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Christopher Flanders, "Angel of Death" and freeloading mystic, sheds no greater spiritual light than he did the first time. Chris represents goodness conceived of negatively as the absence of evil. As Tab Hunter plays him, he is the saint as camp counselor, an earnest, bearded, good-deed-a-day man, but scarcely a religious knight shielding the weak from the fierce dominion of death...
...explain the extraordinary King mystique. Yet he has an indescribable capacity for empathy that is the touchstone of leadership. By deed and by preachment, he has stirred in his people a Christian forbearance that nourishes hope and smothers injustice. Says Atlanta's Negro Minister Ralph D. Abernathy, whom King calls "my dearest friend and cellmate": "The people make Dr. King great. He articulates the longings, the hopes, the aspirations of his people in a most earnest and profound manner. He is a humble man, down to earth, honest. He has proved his commitment to Judaeo-Christian ideals. He seeks...
Zotov is the precise reverse of the old cast-iron, pure-in-word-and-deed Soviet literary hero whom he outwardly resembles. His scruples about profiting from his command position at the railyard, his diffidence about sex, his devotion to duty are presented not as Soviet virtues grafted on him by the state but as signs of an inner innocence that is doomed to disillusion. The moment comes when Zotov is confronted by a "straggler"-one of the thousands of Russian soldiers who had been separated from their outfits in the confusion as the Germans advanced. Zotov is drawn...
...Texans are gravely sorry this terrible deed has been committed in our state, but more so that it was committed in our country, a country supposedly above this sort of deed...
...sure, he invoked the name and fame of his late predecessor. "All I have," he said quietly, "I would have given gladly not to be standing here today. The greatest leader of our time has been struck down by the foulest deed of our time. Now the ideas and ideals which he so nobly represented must and will be translated into effective action...