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...largest Lutheran theological seminary in the U.S. (enrollment 778) is the Missouri Synod's Concordia Seminary-a well-planned scattering of college-gothic buildings and faculty homes on 71 green acres in Clayton, on the western edge of St. Louis. Last week the synod's board of electors announced that they had selected a new seminary president: the Rev. Alfred Ottomar Fuerbringer, 49. Big (6 ft. 3 in.), even-tempered Pastor Fuerbringer and Concordia will not have much trouble getting to know each other-his father headed the school and his grandfather helped found...
When a Southern novel rolls off the presses, it is an odds-on bet that it will land either in the dark bog of Gothic violence or in the moonlit magnolia patch. Ovid Williams Pierce's The Plantation does neither; it is a first novel of grace, style and quiet excellence...
Then he published a history of the Borgias that held the critics fascinated in the gothic embrace of its style. Then, in 1904, he wrote Hadrian...
There were a few U.S. novelists in the middle ranks who gave promise of reaching the top some day. From the South came two novels shucked clean of old magnolia and Faulkneresque gothic: Thomas Hal Phillips' neatly written, believable son & father story, Search for a Hero; and Worth Tuttle Hedden's Love Is a Wound, a thoroughly honest and quietly dramatic tale of slavish and unrequited love in North Carolina. By & large, U.S. writers seemed to serve up fewer wormwood cocktails, fewer canapes of neurosis and despair, than in previous years. A selfconsciously written, cliché-laden...
...Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk The Silver Chalice, Thomas Costain East of Eden, John Steinbeck Giant, Edna Ferber Steamboat Gothic, Frances Parkinson Keyes My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier