Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the Guatemalan accord is not perfect, Honduras is fully committed to the initiative, Contreras said. "We are participating in good faith, and I see reason for cautious optimism in the negotiations already underwayin El Salvador and the announcement by PresidentOrtega of a unilateral cease-fire," he said...
...signed two months ago by five Central American Presidents in Guatemala City. Arias' 30-minute address to the informal joint gathering of Congress was teeming with platitudes and somewhat short of substance, but hardly anyone could fault his message. Said the Costa Rican: "Let us restore faith in dialogue and give peace a chance...
Indeed, Bem has nothing but his faith to guide him through a maze in which every side is trying to frame every other, and terrorists emulate the tyrants they deplore. Is he being menaced by the sinister "raincoats" of the government or by the radicals within his own church? Who is threatened most by his unbending faith? What is the price of compromise? And who is using whom, and why? The confusion is only deepened as Bem meets government officials who are as kind as clergymen, and churchmen as murderous as politicians...
...century ago by the Romantics. His paintings of cowled monks and saints in meditation seemed to connect with spectacular areas of Romantic fantasy -- the dungeon beneath the cloister, the Grand & Inquisitor's icy hand on the red-hot iron, and an obsession with trance, death and the link between faith and cruelty. This Zurbaran was more or less written into cultural existence by Theophile Gautier in 1840, on a visit to Seville...
What indeed? Zurbaran was an artist of unquestioning Roman Catholic faith, whose entire career was spent devoutly illustrating the most rigid and minute dogmas of the monastic orders he worked for (Dominicans, Franciscans, shod and barefoot Mercedarians, Trinitarians, Hieronymites, Carthusians, Carmelites). Yet in no small irony he became a favorite of French anticlericals two centuries and more after his death. Even the surrealists, who hated the church on principle, liked him. Indeed there are Zurbarans whose pure literalness might strike a modern eye as surrealistic; for example, his figure of the Sicilian martyr St. Agatha daintily bearing on a platter...