Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Africa, I have never known one instance of missionary idol-smashing. Instead I can attest first-hand a long record of missionary scholars who have reduced African languages to writing, collected and preserved African fables, proverbs, songs, art objects and missionary teachers who encourage young Africans to perpetuate their ancient arts...
...Hong Kong, the ancient Chinese custom of concubinage agitated the island colony's women. In the past, a concubine would move right into her keeper's house after acceptance by his first wife, who was then able to keep tab on the doxy and watch out for her husband's interests. A concubine's children would address the No. i wife as "Mother," their own mother as "Elder Sister." Today an estimated one-third of Hong Kong's men have a tsip, or second wife, recruited from dance halls, but keep her on a part...
From Emperor to Monk. The Crawford collection ranges from pages out of ancient albums to calligraphic couplets, from spectacular wall scrolls to hand scrolls that were meant to be seen only a few inches at a time. There are scenes of jolly drunkenness and of men contemplating a waterfall, paintings ranging from lofty landscapes to spare sprays of bamboo, the nearest thing in nature to calligraphy. One 22-ft. hand scroll showing a series of great palaces is a work of art so intricate that it seems like a series of fantasies by some Oriental Piranesi. Yet recent excavations...
...salient point, he said, "is not a discussion of one article or another of the fundamental doctrines of the church that have been repeatedly taught by the fathers and the ancient and modern theologians." But merely calling a council implies change, and the Pope cautiously suggested the shape of the change. "The whole world expects a step forward toward a doctrinal penetration . . . studied and expounded through the methods of research and through the literary forms of modern thought." In effect, he recognized the value of recent Biblical scholarship, invited a new interpretation of doctrine. Closer to the Pope...
...affected by modernism. Everyone is full of admiration when Colonel Jesuino Mendonga, after discovering his wife and his dentist in conversation (he in the nude, she wearing only a pair of long black stockings), shoots both of them. The colonel's conduct was impeccable under the ancient code for settling marital differences, and even liberals in Ilhéus are shocked when a court finds him guilty and sentences him to a jail term...