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...ROBERTSON DAVIES' NEW NOVEL opens with a mystery: an elderly priest of the Anglican Church of Canada drops dead during a particularly dramatic moment in the Good Friday services. Very near its end, The Cunning Man (Viking; 469 pages; $23.95) provides an explanation for this long-ago demise, although it is doubtful that any reader simply intent on finding out whodunit will still be turning these pages. The overriding appeal of a Davies book, as his legion of fans will attest, rarely rides on something as mundane as suspense. Instead, Canada's foremost living author, now 81, entertains with...
...around the country that have adopted the techniques of liberal activism developed by such groups as the ACLU and the naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund to do the Lord's work. They are fed by a much smaller number of law schools that teach jurisprudence with what Pat Robertson, founder of Regent and ACLJ, calls "biblical underpinnings...
...beginning of this latest Robertson Davies novel, an elderly priest of the Anglican Church of Canada drops dead during Good Friday services. That scene is not explained until the end of "The Cunning Man" (Viking; 469 pages; $23.95). But TIME critic Paul Gray says the overriding appeal of works by "Canada's foremost living author" rarely rides on suspense. Instead, says Gray, the 81-year-old writer "entertains with an old-fashioned fictional mixture" of "keen social observations delivered with wit, intelligence and free-floating philosophical curiosity...
...With reporting by Robertson Barrett/New York and David S. Jackson/San Francisco
...Robertson told TIME that his organizations ``do not engage in domestic politics with governments--whether it be Angola, South Africa or Zaire,'' and that they operate ``under strict ethical guidelines'' that meet ``all legal requirements imposed by governmental agencies.'' Consorting with a dictator like Mobutu, however, just might raise the eyebrows of a more supreme authority...