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...want to stay within the UCC denomination, the best bet might be this historic black church, says Ron Stief, the former director of the UCC's Washington office and director of organizing strategy at Faith in Public Life. People's is located in Petworth - a mixed-race, less-affluent neighborhood in northwest D.C. - and Stief says it's very oriented to social justice: "They have a lot of international missions, sending members to Africa to do HIV work, for instance." Though there is another black UCC church in town, Stief warns that its pastor might be too "far left...
...Wilson's deeper ironies that the callow but decent Julian lacks conviction while the older and more experienced Hunter is full of indecent passion and ambition. Hunter's conquest of Felicity is pure business, part of securing the private papers of James Petworth Lampitt, a deceased minor writer who was a friend of her father's. Hunter succeeds, and by playing up Lampitt's possible suicide and probable homosexuality, turns the life of a justifiably forgotten literary figure into a scandalous best seller. "One accomplishes nothing so stylishly as the thing in which one has no belief," thinks Julian. "Gigolos...
...Rates of Exchange, Bradbury recasts him as Angus Petworth, a linguistics scholar on a lecture tour of Slaka, the capital of an imaginary but all too plausible East European country. Among Petworth's topics: the difference between "I don't have" and "I haven...
Lecturing is the least of the cultural exchanges in which Petworth engages. Struggling with Slaka's implacable bureaucracy, he plays an unwitting role in its intrigues and treacheries, despite the best efforts of his fond, exasperated official guide. He falls victim to the local peach brandy (rot'vitti), causing a sensation in a nightclub with an impromptu striptease. He attracts more than the routine attention of the state security police (HOGPo) as well as of most of the women he encounters, from the nymphomaniac wife of a British diplomat to a "magical realist" Slakan novelist who seduces...
...other than the usual picaresque of an academic innocent abroad. His book is, in fact, an intricately witty gloss on linguistics and structuralism, if not on the novel-writing process itself. The dislocations and arbitrariness of all things Slakan are meant to evoke a world without fixed meanings. Everywhere Petworth sees "the sign floating free of the signified." Nearly everyone in the country speaks some English, but it is not English as Petworth knows it ("Now, Pervert," a desk clerk mumbles, "this card I write for you, it is your hotel identay'ii, ja?"). Through Petworth's perplexities...