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Brinkley captures Carter's sometimes maddening authenticity--his commitment as a Christian, his moral clarity, stubbornness, occasional nastiness. But Brinkley often falls into the organ tones of hagiography, as if performing an oratorio for a living saint. (Every saint needs a Satan: Ronald Reagan comes off here, almost invariably, as an idiot and a disastrous President...
...Cambridge Street resident reported that between 5:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. three to five people removed a dark trash bag containing about $500 from an unlocked cabinet in Saint Paul's Church which is located at 24 Mt. Auburn...
...chilly night on Chicago's Near North Side, and Bill Tomes is sitting comfortably in the warm interior of his silver Buick Park Avenue. Playing softly on the stereo is his favorite cassette, Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic's Saint-Saens. For a moment, at least, the melody seems to have transported him away from this place he calls the "killing field," an eerily barren patch of inner-city landscape that glows starkly in his headlights...
Brother Bill nods a yes and gets back into his car. Driving off, he turns up the volume of Saint-Saens. As rain and snow come down hard on the windshield and the classical music begins a crescendo, the old Catholic missionary looks suddenly weary. He is still recovering from a recent triple-bypass heart operation, and he's been told the prognosis is not good. "People think I'm a fool," he says, "but I love these guys--all of them. I know that many of them have done some really bad things, even killed people. But no matter...
...Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir," King said. "Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check; a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'" These were not the words of a cardboard saint advocating a Hallmark card-style version of brotherhood. They were the stinging phrases of a prophet, a man demanding justice not just in the hereafter, but in the here...