Word: mannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's wise man warns that the stone is the heart of Karnica: "If we remove it, the kingdom will die." But in such stories, the rulers never listen, giving the author an opportunity to draw a powerful moral about conservation. It is no accident that Sierra Club Books is a co-publisher...
...Treasure (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $7.95), Shulevitz speaks in his own voice to tell the story of old Isaac who dreams of a treasure far away, near the royal residence. The poor man has no ambition to play the palace, but his hunger for riches leads him on, only to prove that travel is narrowing and that no one can become truly rich until he looks into his hearth and soul. The back-in-your-own-backyard conclusion is timeworn, but the book's slow cadences and sprightly tones lend it the character of a legend that can never grow...
...parishioners are mostly farmers and seem old, though again some 30% are young. Shtepa professes a religious relativism: "The main principle of Christianity and Marxism is the same. Believers try to enter the kingdom of God, and Marxists strive for true Communism. The bright future for man and the kingdom of God-aren't they the same...
...their leaders are, though they admit that all members who were imprisoned during the Vins days are back. Recalling the times when the congregation had to worship clandestinely in the woods beyond the city, an old woman remarks, "Our services were of ten disturbed." Even now, a man adds "Sometimes at night windows are bro ken." There have also been two small fires in the church...
...real Baptists," a man says softly. How so? "Ask our leaders,' comes the reply. Where are they? "I don't know." There is a pause. "You won't get the right story from the official Baptists," he says finally. "Mixing church and state...