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...scholars agree on Luther's importance for German culture, surpassing even that of Shakespeare on the English-speaking world. Luther's masterpiece was his translation of the New Testament from Greek into German, largely completed in ten weeks while he was in hiding after the Worms confrontation, and of the Old Testament, published in 1534 with the assistance of Hebrew experts...
This process will not stop with The Day After. Paramount already has a movie in the pipeline called Testament, about one family trying to survive a nuclear blast. One of the hottest commercial novels due next spring is Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka, which shows America reeling from atomic desolation and California, intact and safe, effectively closed to the rest of the country. "There's a hell of a percentage increase in these day-after-nuclear scripts," says Michael Fuchs, president of Home Box Office's entertainment group. Apocalypse has clearly become something more than...
These people must bear Old Testament burdens, punished not just by life but by the suspicion that they somehow deserve all the troubles heaped upon them. In The Mourners, a sick old man faces eviction from his fifth-floor tenement room. He sits huddled on his floor: "How, in so short a life, could a man do so much wrong?" Advancing years do not bring with them the comforts and support of progeny; there are enough ungrateful daughters here to stock several road companies of King Lear, and sons are equally unfeeling...
...take this into account in our dealings with them. And we most certainly should not fall for Soviet propaganda designed not so much to fool westerners, but to keep their own citizens wholly misinformed. That Mr. Louis and others have fallen for it hook, line and sinker is not testament to Soviet cunning, but to the incredible aptitude for self-delusion that is so apparent among unilateral disarmers. Eric Stockel...
...cherished period in baseball, for both those who can recall it from personal experience and those less fortunate who remember it only from the worn pages of the record books, is brought back to life. The roll-call of greats that parade through Tygiel's pages pay ample testament to the glory of those days: Rickey, Robinson, Reese, Durocher, Sukeforth, Campanella, Veeck, Mays, Aaron, Newcombe...At the very least, we are grateful to Tygiel for culling these names and others from scrapbooks and long-destroyed card collections. And at the most, Tygiel transforms a dramatic but simple tale into...