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...release of the hostages in Iran, the biggest immediate problem facing the Carter Administration is how to manage the symbolism of the siege-and, perhaps more important, the symbolism of its aftermath. There is great danger that the spectacle of youthful radicals, backed by an aged and atavistic theocrat, humiliating and terrorizing American diplomatic personnel will have become a symbol of U.S. weakness. On the battlefield of domestic politics, the past two weeks offer Jimmy Carter's bi-partisan legion of opponents an almost irresistible target for sniping. All a skillful stump speaker has to do is lament...
Even when he confronts his backsliding contemporaries, the theocrat of 1690 overleaps the present into the legendary past and the prophetic future. He offers a test not of perception but of symbiotic identification, and he succeeds not because the facts conform but because the rhetoric compels...
...Zion's Founder John Alexander Dowie, in which the Passion Play was being performed every Sunday. To his horror, black smoke "in five different and widely separated places" was billowing out of the Tabernacle and Overseer Voliva later said he heard 15 explosions. Zion's head theocrat frantically summoned firemen. Le Roy Peacy, the salesman who was Christus in the Passion Play, rescued his costume, but the building burned quickly, set fire to the Church's adjacent broadcasting station, lay in ruins before Zion and Waukegan firemen could do much about...