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There are only two functioning churches in the whole of China, both of which reopened recently. The Protestant one, opened last Easter Sunday on a street opposite Peking's Tung Tan shopping center, is served by the Reverend Kan and his assistant, a 50-year-old deacon. A white-haired little old Chinese lady plays hymns on an upright honky-tonk piano. The hymns and the service are all in Chinese, even though the congregation is mostly European and only four members are actually Chinese...
...Woman, her head thrown straight back or tilted lazily to one shoulder, she can be sedate enough to appear with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops-as she did two weeks ago. Or she can burst with the full flavor of Southern blues, as in Eugene McDaniels' Reverend Lee, which she introduced recently to a Denver audience thus: "Lemme paint this picture clearly. This is about a big, strong, black, sexy [pause], potbellied, Southern Baptist minister, who like all men had a master plan for the ladies...
...father of Martin Luther King, a Baptist minister himself who had come out for Nixon a few weeks earlier...now switched. "Because this man," said the Reverend Mr. King Senior, "was willing to wipe the tears from my daughter (in-law's) eyes. I've got a suitcase of votes, and I'm going to take them to Mr. Kennedy and dump them in his lap."... When one reflects that Illinois was carried by only 9,000 votes and that 250,000 Negroes voted for Kennedy, that South Carolina was carried by 10,000 votes and that an estimated...
Updike is an American moralist, analyzing the limits of living in terms of the social thwarting of human potential and dreams. Rabbit was a religious hero in '59; his faith was ruthlessly transcendent. Rabbit's talks with Reverend Eccles drew out his "theology." Eccles talked of Hell "as separation from God". Replied Rabbit: "Well, then, we're all more or less...
...wholly bad or good / Who live our lives under Milk Wood, / And Thou, I know, wilt be the first / To see our best side not our worst," prays the Reverend Jenkins (Henry Goodhue) at his evening devotions. Although it is not always the role of the playwright to play God, Dylan Thomas heeded this prayer in good stead, and although it is even less the right of an audience, Chris Conte induces...