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...almost two weeks and I came up against the greatest challenge to my life and my values that I have ever faced. I was confronted with a lifestyle and a system of beliefs that robbed me of my rationale and free will. I had walked head on into Reverend Sun Myung Moon's indoctrination center...
...world. The religion is primarily Christian, stressing the power of Christ and the imminent second coming of the messiah. Moon's followers believe, through their understanding of Revelation and the cycles of human history, that the new messiah has arrived and, though he is never mentioned in lectures, that Reverend Sun Myung Moon is that new messiah...
...students at the conference," Reischauer added, "are more openminded than their sponsor, Reverend Moon...
...masterminds a gang of bank-robbing thugs with monikers like "the Professor," "the Reverend" and "Mammy" (Jeremy Geidt), who are all kept in line by Dr. Nakamura. Made up to look like Dr. Fu Manchu and with an accent to match, Alvin Epstein plays this role with hysterical finesse. Enter a Salvation Army lassie, "Hallelujah Lil" (Stephanie Cotsirilos). She falls for Bill, and redeeming social values ensue...
UPDIKE APPARENTLY feels obligated to justify a first-person narration with some explanation of how the words got onto the paper. This kind of feeling has afflicted other 20th century writers, and sometimes it leads to contrived situations. Take this one, for example: The Reverend Marshfield suffers from "distraction." As a cure, his bishop orders him to spend a month in the desert, atoning. But this being truly the latter age, ascetism is not what it once was, and Marshfield gets to expiate his sins in fairly comfortable surroundings--a motel, actually. He is forbidden serious "intrapersonal or doctrinal" conversation...