Word: cantina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news catches up with him that his latest novel, The Valley of the Shadow of Death (Lowry's original title for Under the Volcano), has been turned down by his British publisher. After that disappointment, he takes to full-scale drinking, surrounded by an unending hangover and cantina jukeboxes blaring I'm Dreaming of a White Christinas...
Quintet of Questions. Meetings of the synod will take place in the Vatican's "Cantina delle Teste Rotte" (Cellar of Broken Heads).&* Two of three presiding officers at the meetings-William Cardinal Conway of Ireland and Pericle Cardinal Felici, the secretary-general of Vatican II-are generally regarded as conservatives. The agenda ignores the two most bothersome issues facing the church today-priestly celibacy and birth control. Instead, the bishops are expected to focus on a quintet of less pressing questions: canon-law reform, updating doctrine, seminary renewal, mixed marriages and liturgy...
...lazy Sunday afternoon in the lush Cauca River Valley, deep in the Colombia interior, where the look of peace can be deceptive. Near the town of Toro, men shuffled easily down the dirt road from the cantina; women sat idly in their front yards. Then along the irrigation levee swaggered a dozen young men dressed in soldiers' olive drab, carrying submachine guns and pistols. They blocked the road in front of the hacienda La Punta and grabbed everyone who came along, robbing them and clubbing some unconscious. Then they settled back in ambush for a man they had marked...