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...production of Live Like Pigs at the Tufts Arena Theatre is probably as good as the play will ever get. Philip Eck has built a set that is just as fascinating as the one (which shows up in every third comedy) where the resourceful little woman turns the junky garret into the tasteful penthouse. Only this one works in reverse; the wallpaper gets ripped off, the bannister collapses, and the pile of garbage slowly rises. The ever-decaying set helps keep the play going in an uncanny...
...counter-theses, arguing that anyone who criticized indulgences was guilty of heresy. Initially willing to accept a final verdict from Rome, Luther began to insist on Scriptural proof that he was wrong-and even questioned papal authority over purgatory. During an 18-day debate in 1519 with Theologian John Eck at Leipzig, Luther blurted out: "A council may sometimes err. Neither the church nor the Pope can establish articles of faith. These must come from Scripture." Instead of offering him Biblical proof, Pope Leo X issued a bull demanding Luther's recanting-on pain of excommunication-that began: "Arise...
...Last Trolley Ride, though longer, is hardly more substantial. In upstate New York, the orphaned sisters Lottie and Emily Pardee fry fritters in the bay window of their home. The sizzle attracts Jim Eck, who was born on a canal barge, and Jim's "war buddy," Jim Morgan. After a last ride on the trolley line, which is being shut down, these four marry. The trolley line is kept running in miniature in somebody's basement, and subsequently it is sent to the Smithsonian Institution...
...rare volumes, one written by Johannes Eck in 1529 and the other by Johannes Cochlaeus in 1582, printed during the Reformation, are included in the collection. They describe the Catholic reaction to the reforms proposed by Martin Luther...
Died. Jan Carl Van Panthaleon Bar on Eck, 84, founder and former president (1923-36) of Shell Union Oil Co., U.S. branch of the vast Royal Dutch/ Shell complex, a Dutch nobleman's son who in 1911 was sent across the Atlantic to investigate the possibilities for a foreign company in a land already rich in oil, tapped enough Stateside wells and strung enough competitive gas stations across the continent to make Shell a giant of U.S. industry (it now ranks seventh in oil, 15th among all U.S. companies); of lung cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif...