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...family's disintegrating tobacco plantation, he finds his father a sick shell, echoing with remembrances of the South's past and pointedly deaf to the whistle of a passing train. Duncan's sister is about to marry a progressive-minded preacher who is less interested in racial equality than he is in evening the score with erstwhile "first families" like the Welshes. Logan, the Negro field worker, is still loyal, but one of his sons has turned "uppity" and fled north to Harlem...
Worst of all, the whites' lunatic fringe began to take over. A letter addressed simply to "Nigger Preacher" was promptly delivered to Martin King. Up to 25 profanity-laced telephone calls a day came to the King home. Sometimes there was only the hawk of a throat and the splash of spittle against the ear piece. Montgomery was building toward the one thing that Martjn King wanted most to avoid: a violent blowup...
Montgomery's Negroes walked back through the night to their homes. "I'll be honest with you," says a policeman who was there. "I was terrified. I owe my life to that nigger preacher, and so do all the other white people who were there...
...great experience of Schweitzer's youth, as he says in the commentary he wrote for the film, was that of suffering. As the son of a Protestant preacher in Alsace, he was rejected by the other boys in his village as a highborn brat, and the rejection made him, he says, almost morbidly sensitive to the sufferings of others. Although in his 20s he became famous as organist, philosopher, theologian, he never stopped wondering what he could do to ease the world's pain. At 30, he abandoned fame, plunged into medicine, determined to spend his life...
...believes that poems written according to formal rules are "but an imitation of poetry." What, then, is left? A compact, pocket-sized jewel case of highly personal and rare poetic experiences that have less outward shine than inner glow. Poet Raine's father was a spare-time nonconformist preacher in suburban London, but there is no doubt that a Buddhist would understand better than a Christian the implications of The Sphere...