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Word: devouting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unnamed clergyman reports the arrest and torture of a devout young woman identified only as Tereza, presumably for activities in a Catholic youth group. She was raped repeatedly by policemen, he says. Three of her teen-age nephews, including a mentally retarded boy, were also beaten; a fourth nephew was forced to beat his aunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Collision in Latin America | 2/9/1970 | See Source »

...interest in or involvement with religion and politics. What prompts them, perhaps, is an unspoken feeling that "artists should be above" such touchy matters. The visual evidence is overwhelming, though, that Bruegel did involve himself. This is not to say that he was a Protestant, or even a devout Christian. Was he a patriotic Lowlander unalterably opposed to Spanish rule? Nobody knows. Bruegel's religious and political paintings simply point to things manifestly horrible and wrong in his own age-and every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Man for All Seasons: A Bruegel Calendar | 1/12/1970 | See Source »

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