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Faithfull presents two sides of herself in her two act show Don't Smoke in Bed! Act One is a cabaret in which she performs songs by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, accompanied by Paul Trueblood on piano. Faithfull initially had to struggle with the Kurt Weill Institute for permission to sing his songs. This obstacle seems ironic--for much publicized bouts with despair and heartache, not to mention drugs, make her a perfectly cast character...
...most cases of private violence are closer calls. What to do about a man who rapes his wife? What about the fights between spouses that are not pat, villain-and-victim episodes? What about Barrel Trueblood of Terre Haute, Ind., whose son Travis was taken from him for three months in 1980 because the father had punished with the thwack of a ruler? Greg Dixon, a Baptist minister and head of Indiana's Moral Majority, says Trueblood was "just giving a normal whipping." Says he: "Reasonable people can detect whether it's assault and battery...
...ancestral motivation of war-resisting is religious pacifism. In 1899, Benjamin Franklin Trueblood, Quaker educator and prime mover of the American Peace Society, thought he saw within his own life's span an end to war. He exulted: "Its days are nearly numbered"-and died, 17 years later, of what his obituarists called heartbreak, as his fellow Americans headed into World War I and death in places like Belleau Wood. Trueblood was in the tradition of a thin but spiritually pure stream of philosophical pacifism that has run through Western society since the rise of Christianity, even though...
Beginner's Luck. In Ionia. Mich., assigned to cover Policewoman Viola Te-roxel's first day on the force. TV Cameraman Jim Trueblood pictured her ticketing her initial misparked...
...children and adults and between the innocent and the worldly. Her work is marred by a truly feminine absorption in detail so that sometimes she seems to be writing for visitors from Mars, as in Bad Characters with its loving description of a 5 & 10? store, and in Beatrice Trueblood's Story with its total recall of a short ride in a self-service elevator ("an asphyxiating chamber with a fan that blew a withering scirocco; its tinny walls were embossed with a meaningless pattern of fleurs-de-lis; light, dim and reluctant, came through a fixture with...