Word: disturber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pope, the prelates overwhelmingly approved the democratic notion of collegiality. They narrowly voted to discuss the Virgin Mary in the schema on the church rather than as a separate item; giving special emphasis to Mary is a pet cause of the conservatives, but any major Marian pronouncement will disturb ecumenical discussion between the church and Protestants...
CORRUPTION IN THE PALACE OF JUSTICE, by Ugo Betti, is about that debased, fallen being called Man, who, in some unassailable corner of his tarnished soul, yearns for, reflects, and presupposes a radiant otherness called God. Justice is a play to disturb the mind and chill the soul...
...state court enjoined civil rights leaders from "participating in, financing, sponsoring, encouraging or engaging in meetings or other activities" that could lead to a violation of state or local law, or "engaging in any act in a violent and tumultuous manner, or holding unlawful assemblies such as to unreasonably disturb or alarm the public within the city of Danville." That covered just about anything a civil rights organization dreams of doing...
...ought to be according to the aspirations of our soul." Kafka was similarly obsessed, but he found the distance between God and Man unbridgeable, while Betti bridged it by daring to revert to orthodox Christian doctrine. Not a play to stir the passions or warm the heart but to disturb the mind and chill the soul, this exceptional off-Broadway production is an intellectual and spiritual jewel in the theater's cardboard crown...
Moral Acrobat. To Felsenstein, the East German regime has one blinding virtue: it grants him $2,500,000 a year to produce opera any way he likes. As long as politics do not disturb the opera, Felsenstein disregards what he cannot help seeing in the streets. The world may have been outraged when the Berlin Wall went up, but Felsenstein was furious. What would become of his tenor? Could the West Berliners in his chorus and orchestra still cross the border for morning rehearsals? With bureaucratic agility developed by directing state opera houses for both the Nazis and the Communists...