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Long before he ever dreamt of attending Harvard. Eric Carter '84 had his sights set on being a missionary. Raised as a devout Mormon. Carter was guided by his father's example, not in his choice of colleges, but rather in his decision to drop everything and go out converting souls...
...student at St. John the Baptist High School, indifferent to sports and too shy to be very popular, but he still qualified as an old-fashioned all-American youngster. He was a devoted reader, especially of military histories, and a Boy Scout. He was a devout Roman Catholic and a volunteer counselor at a camp for handicapped children. He was apparently never in the slightest trouble, not in St. Louis, not during his studious postgraduate year at a Missouri military academy, and not during his ten months in the Army...
Religion, which had a strong symbolic part in The Family, is now distant and depressing. Mr. and Mrs. Francoeur, devout Roman Catholics, are seen intermittently flitting through their woods like shades in Dante's Purgatorio, while Daniel tussles with sexuality, unspecified rage and moral salvation. Should he refuse to register for the draft or sign up as a conscientious objector? The question threatens to overburden a small, finely balanced novel of physical awakening. But the risks pay off in an unexpected dimension. Daniel's brother Albert, a Marine Corps officer, offers advice that goes beyond the usual gung...
...task will be to shore up his credentials with the traditionalists at home. Despite personality differences between Khalid and Fahd, the two men had complemented each other. Khalid remained close to the nomadic tribes that roam the country's desert wastelands, and his piety and sincerity appealed to devout practitioners of Wahhabism, the orthodox branch of Islam unique to Saudi Arabia. Fahd, on the other hand, gained international respect for his intelligence, flexibility and informed grasp of foreign affairs. But he had much weaker ties to the tribes, and his playboy reputation in his younger years offended more traditional...
...there are novelty seekers whose work resembles sculpture more than furniture. Leading them is Vladimir Kagan, 55, many of whose sofas, desks, chairs and bedroom furnishings are custom-made with Plexiglas, marble, bronze, leather, lacquer or textiles. Kagan's work lacks the devout simplicity of pure crafts manship and often looks as though it had been swiped from the set of Fellini's La Dolce Vita...