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...Bernarda imports and resells flour and sleeps with the help. Their daughter Maria has rejected her European origins for the Yoruban language and ornaments of her African servants. Added to this New World mix are Abrenuncio, a Portuguese-Jewish physician suspected of necromancy, and Father Cayetano Delaura, a young priest with a thirst for banned books and extraclerical activities...
...Harrison's new novel (Random House; 317 pages; $23) about the Spanish Inquisition is, according to TIME critic John Skow, "very good, and a complete surprise." The story follows the separate torments of two women caught in their society's lunacy. Francisca, a young woman in love with a priest, is found out and routinely and grotesquely tortured; Maria, the new bride of the Spanish king, is tortured in a different way by the couple's inability to produce an heir. Skow notes that although the parallel tales of the two women are a bit awkward, the novel is redeemed...
...sirens summoned medical students and off-duty cops, paramedics, firemen, nurses and priests, blood donors and structural engineers, anyone who could provide help and advice and comfort and expertise. Rescuers swarmed from all corners of the city and eventually the surrounding states as well. So many nurses showed up so quickly, said one witness, that after half an hour there was at least one nurse for every victim. A priest in purple vestments and latex gloves tried to comfort the grieving and pray for the dead...
Another strand in the alienated right is known as constitutionalism, a belief that the government has violated the Constitution. These arguments are generally not as aggressive as Trochmann's, but adherents all but renounce their citizenship. Stewart Balint is a handsome, blue-eyed construction worker in Priest River, Idaho, whose family lost its farm to bankers. He told me his studies of law had led him to the understanding that government powers are not legally derived. "I've gotten rid of all my contracts with government," he said. "Rescinded them. Social Security, birth certificate. Driving license, hunting license. I know...
Sony Janus. 57 JFK St., Harvard Square.661-3737. On Thursday, April 20. "Priest...