Word: assisi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choreography, and recent works like Cortege of Eagles (1967), but there were also revivals of dances that some of her fans had feared might die with the dancer. The opening-night program included the serene Canticle for Innocent Comedians, a work inspired by the poetry of St. Francis of Assisi, and last performed in 1953. There were other old favorites, like the 1946 Dark Meadow and the 1947 Errand into the Maze, both symbol-laden ritualistic works, which give the current programs far more the look of Graham retrospectives than was the case in previous Manhattan appearances. From the looks...
...Francis of Assisi said: "If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow...
...peace, and of course to Christ ("a groovy cat"). Buddha, they recall proudly, was a dropout from a royal family who later came back to the palace and turned on his father, the king, with nothing more than sincerity and a mendicant's bowl. St. Francis of Assisi, who left a rich Italian merchant family to live in poverty among the birds and beasts, is another hero, along with Gandhi (for his patient nonviolence), Aldous Huxley (for his praise of hallucinogens in Doors of Perception), and J. R. R. Tolkien's Hobbits (with their quirky gentleness and hairy...
...deepening so much that all of us must work urgently to remedy it. I have the impression that while we all live in the same national space, we do not live in the same social time. Misery dominates large segments of the Brazilian population. If, as St. Francis of Assisi said, virtue cannot grow in misery, it is worth asking how democracy can flourish in poverty...
...Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis of Assisi (Mother Mary Romuald, Superior General) of Milwaukee, for education and care of the mentally retarded ($50,000). The sisters run the special school in Wisconsin where Rosemary Kennedy has lived since...