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Sunday, September 25, 1994 Austin American-Statesman G7 Tho Latest Word I This section is recyclable 5 ft it loel Gregory was called to Ul Head one of the predomi vening with Liz Carpenter, TboGrestl Al Temptation by Joel Gregory! (The Summit! GroupJ preached to the While admittedly a one-sided account of the events surrounding his departure, Gregory's tale strips the sheen from Criswell and his wife. How factual the book is, I don't know. But it is a fascinating look behind the scenes at one of the nation's leading churches. Dale Rice Rice, a former Dallas newspaperman, is an editor at the American-Statesman. nant Protestant congregations in the world, First Baptist Church of Dallas, and then walked away from it after less than two years.

The Rev. W.A. Criswell, who had been pastor there 45 years, author of Unplanned Parenthood, at the LBJ Library. Thursday (noon to 1 p.m.) j- Liz Carpenter signs Unplanned Parenthood at Congress Avenue Booksellers. I Thursday (7:30 p.m.) The 'exas Center for Writers is ponsoring a lecture by novel- and screenwriter Richard rice at the CMA Auditori al, 26th Street and Whitis venue.

Thursday (4 to 6 p.m.) tephen Wade of Banjo A New World:) An Epic of Colonial America! from the of! Jamestown tof the Fallot 2 Quebeci by Arthur Quinn! (Faber and FaberJ $35)j toncing will play and tell sto civilization thrown up by such an unrelenting wilderness. Summers were sweltering, bringing swarms of biting insects, which unknown to the colonists, helped spread some of the many diseases that made mortality rates so appallingly high. Winters were frigid, accompanied by snow and ice that further isolated the far-flung primitive settlements. In many places, the soil was unsuited to the European methods of.cultivating familiar crops. The most affecting story in the series is that of the Acadians.

This charming, rather feckless group inhabited the 18th-century Eden of Nova Scotia, which appears, according to Quinn, to have been the only easily tamed spot of wilderness in North America. In the mid-1750s, the Acadians were expelled by the English Gov. Lawrence from their lovely homes in a series of maneuvers so cruel that he felt obliged to cpnceal them from his superiors in the British government. The entire book is flawed by the complete absence of maps. Each segment makes frequent reference to obscure frontier outposts, many of which have long since vanished.

An interested reader becomes frustrated searching for them in an atlas. Quinn's writing, as befits that of a professor of rhetoric, is marvelous. The only drawback is that in getting both himself and his reader so wrapped up in his litany of misfortune, he loses sight of the greater part of the settlers' accomplishment, the establishment of a group of settlements that could function interdependently in considerably less than 200 years after their precarious beginnings. Josephine Black Black is a free-lance writer. les at University Co-op in Upcoming events of interest to readers and writers in Austin: Through Friday World War II Ship Models of Norman Bel Geddes on exhibit in the Wrenn Library of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.

Monday (7:30 p.m.) Austin Out Loud actors from Live Oak Theatre read Austin writers at St. Stephen's school auditorium. Cost $10, benefiting the Austin Public Library. Call 472-5143. Tuesday (7 to 8:30 p.m.) Layman's Law, a monthly series of legal workshops at Crossroads Bookstop, 9070 Research Blvd.

This month: Professor Sanford Levinson, UT Law, on the First Amendment. Tuesday (4 to 6 p.m.) Stephen Harrigan, Naomi Lindstrom and Pat Little-Dog sign at the University Coop. Tuesday (7:30 p.m.) Neal Barrett, William Browning Spencer, Susan Wade, and Don Webb read at cafezino, 5414 Parkcrest Drive. Wednesday (6 p.m.) An Arthur Quinn, professor of rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley, offers here 12 narrative essays about colonial America. His stories deal with groups of Europeans migrating from northern Europe to North America from the founding of Jamestown in 1608 until the death of French commander Montcalm at the hand of the English Wolfe's forces on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec in 1759.

Quinn tells onjunction with a book sign-lg for Douglas Wixson, au-lor of Worker-Writer in ymerica: Jack Conroy and the -MZiitJt was his Nemesis. What led to Gregory's decision to leave that powerful pulpit with all its incredible perks is detailed in Too Great A Temptation, a readable book with lots of detail about the church and those who lead it. It also exposes the secular side of the sacred. As Gregory describes it: "First Baptist Church of Dallas sits at the intersection where the Way of the Cross intersects the American Dream" and where "there can be a head-on collision between a man's ambition and his desire to serve God." Gregory may not have spent many years in Dallas, but he has Big pegged: It, he says, is "the capital of materialism in that corner of the western hemisphere. Dallas understands two things: money and power.

You are valued according to how much you possess of one or both. If the gods of materialism blessed you with both, you are virtually worshiped. Lest you think this overblown, go live there for awhile." Amen. One could misinterpret this story as a tale. However, there are two giant egos here.

Witness Gregory's assessment of himself: "At forty-four years of age I had reached the absolute pinnacle of my profession. I had earned a Ph.D., inherited the strongest church in the country, 'radition of Midwestern Liter- ry Radicalism, 1898-1990. Saturday Austin Writ 7, s' League fall workshops ith Elmer Kelton on writ- the novel and Laurie it rummond on selling your the story of each group Ihort story, at St. Edward's of arrivals from the perspective of that university. Also, children's reative writing workshops.

Call 499-8914. group's leaders. Among these gentlemen were John Smith, Samuel de Champlain, William Bradford, Peter Stuyvesant and William Penn. Virtually everyone who came to the New World was aghast at the obstacles to easy his datebook appears bimonthly in nestyle. -nr on the back cover.

rie Drummond, travel writer Lin Sutherland and free-lance writer and poet John Herndon. Several other workshops are also planned. Call 499-8914 for ning entries will be published in the December issue of the newsletter. For information, contact the league at 1501 W. Fifth Suite E-2, Austin 78703, or call 499-8914 1 Tt ABCt Of EneWIIno epting the Challenge" to Zero nothing and in your Ser Universi-of Texas iad swim-iing coach, The Austin Public Library offers free tutoring in reading and math for children in grades one through 12 at several branch libraries.

To qualify, children must live in the service area of the library and be having serious difficulties. To volunteer as a tutor, or to learn more about the program, call Ann Stafford at 499-7443. Volunteer tutors work with children on a drop-in, or a one-to-one basis. BIG BUCKS: Bookfest '94 made $37,000 for the Travis County Literacy Council. That's a record for the annual book sale fundraiser, which took place recently at the Arboretum.

TEEN CONTEST: High school students in grades 9-12 are invited to enter the Young Texas Writers Awards Program of the Austin Writers' League. Three scholarships, ranging from $50 to $150, will be awarded in poetry, short story, essay and journalism. Entries must apply to the theme "Reflections," and may include unpublished or previously published works. Fee, $5. Win ell is the au- nor of seven books and was 1988 t.S.

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7-9. Local author Elizabeth Moon will be honored, and Bruce Sterling will be there. HOW TO EXCEL: Austin sports psychologist Keith Bell has a new book on winning. What It Takes: The ABC's of Excelling (Keel Publications, $19.95) is precisely that. It goes from "A Ac- OVE YOUR DOG: An Austin iuthor got an unusual fan letter pcently.

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