Word: avila
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...Chaucer's Canterbury Tales pointedly witnesses. Indeed, St. Catherine of Siena earned her major fame by talking the Avignon pope into moving the papacy back to Rome. Partially in recognition of this, Pope Paul VI recently named her, along with the 16th century mystic, St. Teresa of Avila, "Doctor of the Church" -a title hitherto bestowed only upon...
...which the poet, himself a religious man, insists that it is impossible to write religious poetry. Prayer is a dialogue between man and God. No third party need apply. This powerful objection applies also to religious prose. The works of St. John of the Cross and St. Teresa of Avila are there to warn against imprudent attempts to communicate about the incommunicable. Fortunately Muggeridge (now 66), a highly professional journalist with a sprightly native wit, writes better and with considerably more verve than these celebrated mystics...
...Classrooms. Launched in 1944 under President Manuel Avila Camacho, sharply stepped .up in 1959 by President Adolfo Lopez Mateos, and energetically continued by President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz for the past three years, Mexico's campaign to wipe out illiteracy is gaining new momentum. Under Diaz Ordaz, Mexico has spent four times as much on education as it has on national defense; up to 10,000 classrooms have been built each year during his administration, and 5,000 more are currently under construction...
...film in Spain with Spanish extras. The corner cutting shows in nearly every scene. Dubbing has made Shakespeare's words fit badly in the mouths of the supporting players and sometimes of the principals (Sir John Gielgud as Henry IV, Jeanne Moreau as Doll Tearsheet). The background of Avila sits oddly with the Elizabethan drama. By having Sir Ralph Richardson narrate .he film with quotations from Holin-shed's Chronicles, Welles evidently loped to sew his fragmentary film together; instead, he has exposed its ?patches...
Teresa of Avila, the 16th century saint, had poetic visions of "pure water running over crystal, the sun reflecting it and striking through it." Simone Weil, the lonely Jewish girl who turned into a Christian mystic, tells how the recitation of lines by George Herbert, such as, "Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back," acted on her intuitive unconscious like prayer. "Then it hap pened," she recalled. "Christ himself came down, and he took...