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...paid $1,750,000 for the collection, which Hartford decided to let go after it ceased training candidates for the ministry in 1972. The library was a stunning bargain; included are 1,239 individual writings by Martin Luther, printed in the 16th and 17th centuries, a considerable collection of Puritan writings from colonial New England, scores of rare hymnals, and a broad collection of Asian and African materials-though not Hartford's prestigious Islamic collection, which it is keeping. Average cost per book...
...deceptively cherubic man of 58, Jimmy Kruger is a traditional Afrikaner puritan, the product of a farming family and a correspondence-course college education. As Justice Minister, he seems to enjoy the diversion of cracking down on Sunday movies, which are technically illegal under South Africa's blue laws. Himself the father of two sons (his wife Susanna is the author of a book of essays), he often speaks of his country's race problems in unabashedly paternalistic tones. "Anarchy-that's what the children of Soweto want," he told a local newspaper. "And if their parents...
what our seemers be," says Duke Vincentio (Sam Waterston) as he sets out, disguised as a friar, to play God like some sadistic schoolboy among the seamy souls who inhabit his city. Vincentio wants to re-establish law-and-order, but he leaves the governing to Angelo, a celebrated Puritan played like a young Robespierre by John Cazale. Angelo believes in absolute justice but soon declines into lechery and official murder. Meanwhile the city fathers can't even clear the streets of prostitutes. A black pimp, brilliantly played in high camp by Howard Rollins Jr., asks, "Does your worship...
Take sex, for one of Farber's examples. Nobody has more effectively satirized the solemn absurdity of the Masters and Johnson laboratory ("I'm Sorry, Dear") or more wittily staged the gauche bedroom farce of the puritan turned hedonist ("My Wife, the Naked Movie Star"). But Farber is not content to do one more clever number on middleclass, middle-aged America sweating and puffing toward its Utopian orgasm. What sets him apart is an uncynical pity for the angelic apes squirming at the chain's end of lust, even as they proclaim their liberation. Patiently, with...
Walker, 24, whose training was as punishing if not as puritan as Bayi's, had been greatly relieved to learn of the Tanzanian's rigorous schedule. It dispelled the intimidating notion popular among Bayi's competitors-that he had tapped some magical source of stamina in the upcountry of Africa that the world would never share. Unlike Bayi-who seems to glide effortlessly over the track with a feathery gait, his delicate, slender features contorted only by an occasional smile-Walker runs a noisy, grimacing race, punctuated by grunts and the thud of heavy footfalls. Part...