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LaVERGNE and company have a bit more success with Purlie's intermittent scenes of serious philosophy. The portrait of the racially divided rural South ("split like a fat man's underwear") is often genuinely moving. LaVergne's accomplished declamatory style spruces his long, fiery sermons--giving his dreams of an...
The Soviet Screwtape writes about listless and corrupt clergy in minute details that could only have been gleaned from a broad network of informants. The aging Archbishop of Stavropol (who died shortly after the report was written) receives special mention because his sermons are "quite brief and not very impressive...
It began quietly in 1979, almost as an echo from a bygone generation. Pastors delivered sermons on the virtues of peace. Antiwar groups, some with their roots in the '50s, passed out petitions and organized small demonstrations. Communist parties drummed up predictable anti-NATO sentiment. But gradually, as anger and...
Egyptian police launched the roundup with late-night calls on leading political dissidents and religious militants. Mohammed Heikal, author, journalist and confidant of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser, was roused at 3 a.m. at his summer villa in Alexandria and escorted -"gently," said an aide-to Cairo's...
That the cowboy has a past at all comes as something of a revelation. He was not born in the saddle on the banks of the Red River but in Old Mexico. The grandees who first brought cattle and horses to the New World in the 1500s considered livestock tending...