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Meanwhile Gill was busy directing the lives of his flock: women's skirts must be below the knee and men must grow beards. Gill also came to see Henry Kissinger as the Antichrist because he was a powerful man whose actions affected the fate of Israel, and he sent such fiery spiritual threats in telegrams to President Nixon that the Secret Service paid him a visit. Local clergy inquired quietly about Gill's sanity...
...most familiar legs of the tour-Damascus and Aswan-arrivals and departures have by now become routine. In Jerusalem, on the other hand, Kissinger delights in the flock of excited American tourists who gather in the King David Hotel lobby to applaud and snap his picture. He has become such an attraction there that before the latest shuttle, the hotel's management wrote a pleading letter asking him not to carry out "an act of aggression against the King David" by switching to the newer Jerusalem Hilton. With enough aggression to deal with already, Kissinger acceded...
...Ross's gull, which is almost never seen south of the Arctic Circle, and never before in the continental U.S. It was indeed present and, as if on cue, put on a show for the hundreds of bird watchers by feeding three times each day with a flock of Bonaparte's gulls (named after Charles Lucien Bonaparte, an ornithologist and a nephew of Napoleon) making their accustomed annual visit...
...story is familiar enough. Marshfield's "distraction," as Updike fans have already guessed, took the form of a too-enthusiastic ministering to the sheep of his flock. And if Marshfield's wife and mistresses are puppets, at least they are well-carved, and skillfully handled...
...sermons are supposed to get better as the month goes on. The second begins with an examination of some New Testament miracles and unfolds into an elegant defense of evil as "essential to a Creation of differentiated particulars." But again, he ends with apostasy, cursing his "docile suburban flock...