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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plenty of Roman Catholic and Jewish students in church every week. They're there because they like the service, they're not offended by it, and they're comfortable there. I think a definitely Christian' community would be a mistake...
...Danbury, Conn., where he became friendly with another prisoner, the Rev. Daniel Berrigan. The two jogged together and discussed the theater and Viet Nam. In Absurd Convictions, Modest Hopes, Berrigan wrote about Burghardt: "This young black resister...had been an actor and TV personality...He came in like a Roman candle, with all his talents exploding around...
...precisely the image of Burghardt as a "Roman candle" that worried friends when he first went to Danbury. "His presence just demands a reaction," observes Denise Spalding, a Manhattan social worker who is now raising funds for Burghardt's defense. "There is no way Arthur can walk into a room and not be noticed." Burghardt is in fact 6 ft. 6 in., weighs 250 Ibs., and he has a deep, booming voice. "The moment he went into prison," says his chief defense attorney, William Kunstler, "he was doomed...
Paradoxically, Mitterrand comes from a conservative Roman Catholic background, and concedes that "my socialism did not come easily." One of eight children of a railway worker from the southwestern province of Charente, Mitterrand says that in his youth "we talked about Communists as if they were men from Mars." When reproached for his "reactionary past," he replies: "I deem it more honorable to have evolved from right to left than vice versa." In spite of his impoverished beginnings, Mitterrand has gathered degrees in law and political science...
...origins are almost as old as civilization itself. It was once the pastime of Roman emperors, the "game of kings and the king of games." An upper-crusty Englishman observed that "it has ever been a game for the higher classes and has never been vulgarized or defiled by uneducated people." The elegant diversion is backgammon-and although it has long been enjoyed by an elite few in the private clubs and fashionable resorts of Europe, in the U.S. it lay face down in obscurity on the backside of a checkerboard. Until recently, that...