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...20th century totalitarianism. The novel is set in a massive, fetid prison near Istanbul, in the waning days of the Ottoman Empire, but the prison is obviously a modem police state in miniature. Guilty and innocent alike are cast into this prison where all standards have disappeared. Its chief warden is a masterpiece of characterization, both repellent and sympathetic, a tyrant trapped by fate as his victims are trapped...
...Warden Karadjos mingles with the prisoners to learn their weaknesses, and with this knowledge wrings confessions from them all, guilty or not. "He needed a confession," writes Andric, "as the one relatively fixed point on which to be able to base some semblance of justice and create some sort of order in a world where all are guilty and deserve punishment." To get his confessions, Karadjos jokes, bullies, wheedles, blackmails, but the prisoners, with shrewd insight, admire him as much as they fear him. "As things are today," one later reflects, "he was the right man in the right place...
Episcopalian Price has been holding weekly healing services since 1942. He is warden of the Order of St. Luke the Physician, a group of clergy and laymen, including physicians, who take literally St. James's injunction: "Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church and let them pray over him." The order insists that "spiritual healing" should be included in the ministry of established Protestant churches, traditionally chary of faith cures. Dominated by Episcopalians, the interdenominational Order of St. Luke exudes a well-bred approach that would shock Oral Roberts...
...Order of St. Luke was founded in 1947 by Dr. John Gayner Banks of San Diego's St. Luke's Episcopal Church. When Banks died in 1955, his widow took over the editorship of the St. Luke magazine, Sharing, and Price became the order's warden. According to Ethel Banks, the number of U.S. churches offering healing services has grown steadily, from 14 in 1947 to 460 today (about 95% of them Episcopalian). The order now has 4,200 members in 85 countries...
...home landscaped with barbed wire (Sillitoe's way of saying "this sceptered isle"). Smith, son of a factory worker, is the natural enemy of the Establishment. He is a convicted burglar who feels no guilt, only odium. The one thing he can do well is run. The warden (Michael Redgrave) trains him as the long-distance runner who will triumph for the Borstal prison in the first sports day ever arranged between the boy convicts and the amiable young gentry from a nearby school. But this only sets the boy up to establish a sort of world...