Word: ancients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current season at Germany's Nurnberg Opera House is an operatic twin bill called Dreams. Itis the work of the first Korean composer to make an important mark onWestern music, Isang Yun. Based on two ancient Taoist parables, Dreams idealizes the renunciation of earthly values while striving for inner personal freedom...
...worshiping at St. Leonard's Church, a weathered, three-century-old stone building. Enderby has also been the parish's diligent churchwarden for more than two decades. Rising at dawn, he arrives at St. Leonard's shortly before 8 o'clock holy communion, tolls the ancient bell, carefully lights the altar candles, and then drops his usual small offering into the collection envelope. Commendable though it is, Enderby's simple act of devotion is an anachronism. On most days, he is St. Leonard's only worshiper...
...rural dioceses have been pronouncing certain parishes "redundant"-that is, they withdraw recognition of the church, order its old doors locked, and if no other use can be found, declare the building ready for demolition. "The church is for people; it is not a society for the preservation of ancient monuments," said a recent diocesan report in Lincolnshire, where 57 rural parishes have already been declared redundant and 100 others are on the brink of that fate...
Vogt saw Chiapas for the first time in 1955, when Dr. Alfonso Caso, director of INI, invited him to Mexico to visit potential sites for applied anthropology. Chiapas seemed ideal for several reasons. First, the Indians in Chiapas are the descendants of the ancient Mayans, so knowledge of their customs goes as far back as the Spanish Conquest. Second, the Indian communities are in the midst of a slow urbanization process that is challenging many of their traditions. Third, the countryside was beautiful and the climate hospitable...
Beyond such folderol, astrology has been taken seriously by serious students. They believe that the ancient religion and superstition from which it springs are embedded in the unconscious of modern man. Psychiatrist Carl G. Jung referred to it as a "scientia intuitiva," and often had horoscopes cast for his patients. The idea was not to predict their futures but to call attention to elements that might or might not lie in their personalities. A horoscope showing excessive fatherlove and tendencies toward sadism, he realized, could be used to provoke talk, self-analysis and perhaps insight. "Today," wrote Jung, "rising...