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...critics too. Crimes of the Heart, Henley's first full-length play, brought her a Broadway hit and a Pulitzer Prize-she keeps the certificate in a desk drawer. Out of another drawer came Am I Blue, a one-acter she wrote as a sophomore at Southern Methodist University; it recently opened at Manhattan's Circle Repertory Company. The Miss Firecracker Contest, her second full-length play, has completed a successful run at Buffalo's Studio Arena Theater; and her latest, strongest play, The Wake of Jamey Foster, is charming theatergoers at the Hartford Stage Company. Crimes...
...predictable leftist or pacifist church circles; it has entered the religious mainstream. This month the 37 regional executives of the American Baptist Churches called the very existence of nuclear weapons, much less willingness to use them, "a direct affront to our Christian beliefs." The bishops of the United Methodist Church proclaimed in November that "all other issues pale" by comparison. Billy Graham sees a moral crisis that "demands the attention of every Christian...
...trial, a phalanx of heavyweight civil liberties lawyers, prepped by 60 scientific consultants, faced a far less-experienced Arkansas legal team. Last week the A.C.L.U. rolled out its case and it was crushing. The lead-off witness, United Methodist Bishop Kenneth Hicks, termed the bill a clear-cut "transgression of the First Amendment." University of Chicago Theologian Langdon Gilkey was unimpressed by the fact that the state law carefully did not mention God by name. Said he: "A creator is certainly a god if he brings the universe into existence from nothing...
DIED. Charles Parlin, 83, former co-president of the World Council of Churches and former president of the World Methodist Council; in New York City. A staunch ecumenist, Parlin was the first American layman to be named to the six-member presidium of the World Council of Churches, where he served from 1961 to 1968. A lawyer, he defended Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam when the House Un-American Activities Committee investigated charges in 1953 that Oxnam had a Communist Party affiliation...
...chose Methodist Bishop James Armstrong of Indiana for a three-year term as president. Strong-willed and outspoken, Armstrong, 57, is the sort of burly, smiling, old-fashioned doer who can wrangle with opponents while magically retaining their affection...