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Something of a cult has also grown up around the memory of Father Alfred Delp, a sociologist who was arrested for joining a group of Protestant and Catholic intellectuals who met secretly at the home of Protestant Layman Helmuth von Moltke to plan for the reconstruction of post-Hitler Germany along Christian and democratic lines. Arrested after the failure of the plot against Hitler, Delp was hanged seven months later. Another saintly priest was Provost Bernhard Lichtenberg of Berlin, who was imprisoned and ultimately deported to Dachau after praying for the Jews at St. Hedwig's Cathedral...
...five years before he won the Nobel Prize, nearly all his novels were out of print. Many white Southerners still turn away from him as difficult, gothic and horror-ridden, loaded down with a guilt they claim they do not feel. Yet today William Faulkner is the one writer-sociologist, historian or novelist, Southerner or Northerner, white or Negro-who is inescapably relevant to a compassionate understanding of the Southern crisis...
...soon grew into a sort of Rhodes scholarship of U.S. law. Clerking for the Supreme Court is now a launching pad for all kinds of later fame -be it heading the State Department (Dean Acheson), running U.S. Steel (Irving Olds), going to jail (Alger Hiss), becoming a leading sociologist (David Riesrnan), or returning as a Supreme Court Justice (Byron White). "It is much more than a meal ticket," explains one ex-clerk. "It's an incalculably valuable experience...
From the welter of facts, with the passion of a born antiquarian and the insights of a self-made sociologist, Powell has reconstructed the intense pulling and hauling of an early American community that was, "in a real sense, a little commonwealth," able to create "as much of an ideal state as its leaders could conceive and find agreement on." Such fine-grained history is certainly more for the scholar than for most general readers. Yet Powell's style is clear, if sometimes too sugary, and the people and events can be absorbing...
...intermarriage is potentially the most combustible of all civil rights issues. Although marriage between whites and Negroes is actually rare in the U.S.-at least officially-miscegenation by cohabitation is another matter, rooted largely in the South's unspoken mores. According to one study by University of Wisconsin Sociologist Robert Stuckert, 21% of white Americans are "descendants of persons of African origin." By the calculation of Anthropologist Melville Herskovitz, 72% of U.S. Negroes have white ancestors...