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...reminded one of those 95 theses Martin Luther nailed on the church door in Wittenberg. On October 16, 280 New Englanders broke with an old faith and returned their draft cards to the U.S. Attorney General's office. After four months, more than 1400 young men have become lowercase protestants...
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. Shakespeare's duo may have been swinging students on the Wittenberg campus, but when Tom Stoppard tosses them into the midst of the intrigants of Elsinore, they seem two poor sophomores being hazed by a malevolent fraternity. The skillful dramatic interplay between Brian Murray and John Wood provokes laughter even as it evokes compassion...
...list students, over 20, and not even flower children) do hereby affirm our faith in the warmth and empathy of the poetry of Rod McKuen [Nov. 24] and do unanimously declare that your review is Truman Capote with a twist of formaldehyde. SANDRA BARKER CATHY TRACY MARGOT GRONHOLZ Wittenberg University Springfield, Ohio...
Promise for the Mourning. On October 31, an ecumenical procession of colorfully robed clergymen shuffled solemnly along Wittenberg's cobbled streets from the Lutherhaus, the building where Luther worked and taught, to the stately Castle Church. There, East German Bishop Johannes Janicke of East Germany's Evangelical Church preached a sermon based on the beatitudes that had a distinctly contemporary relevance. Today, he said, "the cry of the masses for righteousness has been clad in atheistic ideology." Nonetheless, "the beatitudes place the poor, the mourning, the meek and the hungry under the promise of God's government...
Later, Presbyterian Blake admitted that "I went to Wittenberg on a church invitation, and I was shocked at the restrictions." For all that, Blake was encouraged by the willingness of a Marxist state to commemorate Luther in its own way, even in the dubious guise of a precursor of the proletarian revolution, and by the mere fact that East Germany's much-beleaguered Protestants were able to hold commemoration services at all. "The thing that needs to be understood in the U.S.," Blake said, "is that the church exists and lives in East Germany...