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Author Singer's deep-running narrative makes a microcosm of the Warsaw ghetto. Reminiscent in scope of the great Russian novels of the 19th century, his novel moves with the leisure of abundance-eddying, pausing, plunging. Its surface ripples with passages of delicate description, trenchant dialogue and precisely observed detail; its depths roll forward with the heavy, hidden surge of life itself...
Unapologetic Jeremiads. Such trenchant comments have made Lawyer Stringfellow one of the most persuasive of Christianity's critics-from-within; Karl Earth, on his U.S. trip in 1962, referred to him as the man "who caught my attention more than any other." Now 36, Stringfellow gave up his street-corner practice in Harlem two years ago to form a midtown Manhattan law firm, but he still takes many cases on behalf of the poor. During the academic year he delivers about 20 lectures a month, most of them sharply critical of organized Christianity's pretensions. He is fond...
...Alexander Roper Vidler, 64. A goateed, beekeeping bachelor, Vidler is dean of King's College. As editor of both Theology and Soundings, he regards himself as the "midwife" of much of the new Cambridge thought. His specialty is ecclesiastical history, and Vidler is a trenchant critic of the "legalisms" and archaic institutions that have be come fossilized within the Church of England. He believes that most Anglican theologians have been "lethargic, dealing with secondary questions." To him, the merit of Cambridge theology is that, right or wrong, it has attempted to tackle basic issues concerning church, faith...
LOOKING FOR THE GENERAL, by Warren Miller. In this wild but curiously trenchant metaphysical farce, a young nuclear physicist decides that men from another planet will redeem the earth...
...Saigon skinback [Oct. 11] was the longest-windedest in TIME'S clitic trenchant history. I'm with the newsmen in the field...