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...Sizemore is a coal miner who has practically no money and lives in a rented house in Appalachia, where the hallow he lives in is choked in a layer of "red dog" coal slag left by the strippers for "surface miners," as the industry calls them). He's been broke more than once, drives a '68 Ford after going three years without one and wheezes like a train when he walks around because he has second-stage black lung. He lives in a place where school teachers quote from the National Enquirer and where the deputy sheriff pistol-whipped...
...custom of jubilee years dates back to ancient Judaism; the Book of Leviticus decreed that "You shall hallow the fiftieth year" by pardoning debts and freeing slaves. With a more spiritual idea of liberation in mind, the Roman Catholic Church began its tradition of Holy Years in 1300; eventually they came to be celebrated fairly regularly every 25 years. As in past Holy Years, pilgrims to Rome who visit St. Peter's and three other basilicas-St. John Lateran, St. Mary Major and St. Paul Outside the Walls-will receive a papal plenary indulgence: full remission of any temporal...
...JOHN HALLOW (balding) Manhattan...
...state of U.S. fiction, as exemplified by the "elevation" of Marjorie Morningstar, the bestseller by Herman Wouk, to its high acclaim as top-notch literature: "I have nothing against Mr. Wouk. It's simply the matter of him being built up because he shows respect to so-called hallowed institutions . . . Good novelists better leave the hallowing of sacred institutions to people who get paid to hallow them! Now take Norman Vincent (The Power of Positive Thinking) Peale. His approach is 'How to Get Rich Through Prayer!' . . . The books which bring comfort alone are never good books...
...apocryphal John Harvard continued to contemplate his book last night, but the symbol of Ivy League superiority got little help from anti-Intellectual broom Jockeys who proved that nothing is sacred on All Hallow's Eve by planting a large and cynical pumpkin on top of the book that has for many years held John's undivided attention. But the Grounds Crew came to the slow-witted scholar's rescue with a ladder and a long pole. The crew reported through its collective nose that the intruder suffered from acute internal decay, but the statue maintained its dignity...