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...finally had the opportunity to break down the culture barriers when a schoolteacher in the village asked him to teach an adult English class she was organizing. He gladly agreed. The first day of the class, Sandburg recalls smiling, "everybody in the village came--the priest, the mayor and his three daughters, the feuding grocery store owners, the pharmacist and his girlfriend." Word of his class spread across the area, and gradually the local Italians began to trust him, talk to him, and even help him with his fieldwork...
...problem with those boys," he said. Raymond White, 58, from Guildhall, Vt., seemed too young to have memories of Camp Stark. But he had come carrying a sack full of old photos, looking for a friend. He found him too: Clauss, who had translated for the local priest when White had been an altar boy at St. Francis Church...
...World is refreshing for its variety. "Soldier's Joy" is a venture into despair that we almost don't escape. "The Missing Person," on the other hand, has a protagonist who is almost as strange and lost and cynical as his counterpart in "Soldier's Joy." He is a priest whom life has clubbed with one disgrace after another, but who begins a quiet, enduring love affair with a woman he meets by chance at a hotel...
...WOLFF STORIES seem at first discrete items of interest about a soldier, or a priest or the strangeness of people who live in the desert. But they bloom from the particular to the universal. Listen to the socially marginalized protagonist of "Soldier...
...said the "conditions of our captivity are very bad. They are far worse now than when Father [Lawrence Martin] Jenco was with us. Truly they are bad." Jenco, a Roman Catholic priest, was freed July 26 after being held 19 months...