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Although no fundamentalist, Cosby preaches a Scripture-centered faith, and his dramatic sermons are rooted in the Southern evangelistic tradition. Unconcerned that his church has few members, he believes that the "costly grace" of Christian commitment "can be more readily sustained among a small group than in a large impersonal setting." Cosby also rejects activism for its own sake. "Just getting involved," he says, "is often a form of escape." The true Christian ministry, he believes, must be an "inward and outward" journey-meaning both spiritual pilgrimage toward God and dedication to the service of humanity for Christ...
...interview Burack says very little that isn't in the Handbook. And he doesn't have to. "It's all in the book," he says, waving around the little blue paperback like a fundamentalist minister displaying his Bible. The bulk of the book is an 85-page series of lists of basic prescription drugs--what they do and how much they cost--with comparative prices of brand name drugs and their generic equivalents...
Both Fosdick* and McCracken are Baptists-but there the similarity ends. A fiery orator and prolific writer who thrived on controversy, Fosdick became the focus of the modernist-fundamentalist battles of the 1920s by questioning the Virgin Birth and the literal truth of Scripture, later gained a national following as a radio preacher. Theologically more conservative, McCracken, 63, seldom made the headlines despite his pulpit support for such causes as civil rights and peace in Viet Nam, but has a widespread reputation among the clergy as a preacher's preacher. Other ministers consider him a classic orator...
Stollman is perplexed--and a little pleased--by the banned-in-Cambridge status of the Fugs. "These records are selling all over the country, even in deep-dyed--triple-dyed, if you please--Baptist, fundamentalist Texas. Everywhere except Cambridge." To capitalize on the publicity value of the ban, however, Stollman has to find a commercial organization to place the records on sale and so precipitate a test case to determine the legal status of the records. At present, he can't find any takers...
Chief William H. Parker was a crusty law-enforcement fundamentalist who spent 16 years building the Los Angeles Police Department into one of the best known, best paid and least corrupt in the U.S. There was a price though: a chilly distance between the cops and the slum Negroes that helped to start the 1965 Watts riots. When Parker died at 64 last July, Los Angeles set out to find a successor skilled in "community relations"-the art of enlisting citizens to help prevent crime, rather than relying on repression after it happens. Last week the city found...