Word: fragment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...novel based on this provocative fragment of history, French moviemakers have put together a masterly picture. Subtly but forcefully, with compassion, humor and a spirituality that never grows sanctimonious, it explores the struggle within the layman-priest (Pierre Fresnay) and the clash between the impulsive religious ardor of the islanders and the authority of a church jealous of its sacred functions...
...which endows his conscience and will with the craving for the good, which empowers his heart to love; imprisoned hopelessly in this world of strife and frustration, here to center all his hopes and here to erect his paradise . . . He is but a passing shadow of no duration, a fragment of no intrinsic or ultimate worth...
There is a fragment of Robert Bly's Garrison Prize winning poem "The Indian Trail" printed under the title "Famine." It is the most finished piece in the current issue, and it is unfortunate that only a portion of the whole poem could appear. Mr. Bly's images and choice of words are always clear and appropriate; probably because he has chosen to write about something definite--a Sioux Massacre of 1862. Lyon Phelps' poem "Deutschland, Deutschland," which won honorable mention in the Garrison contest, strongly echoes Eliot in rhythm, symbols, and the use of the device of repeating fragments...
Last week the Marqués de Lozoya, Madrid's art director, asked Jesús to name his price for the fragment. "Nothing," was the answer. "It brought me adventure. To discover a Velasquez and call it one's own, even for a short time, is enough." Nonetheless, Lozoya pressed a 20,000-peseta ($1,800) reward on Jesús, proposed him for a government decoration. But Jesús was already off to the junk shops again. "If anyone finds more pieces," he declared, "I am the man who should. I have that Velasquez feeling...