Word: friar
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eastman is in any case right for the wrong reason. He calls it a philosophy of wish fulfillment, but that is because he does not know anything about William of Occam, or Thomas Aquinas, or any of the mediaeval rebels whose scholasticism led them into the friar movement, and knows too much abut Siger of Brabant and Buridan. Professors DeWulf and Gilson have been so busy defending scholastic philosophy that they have never had time to use it; the time to condemn the scholastic view on Russia is after a competent scholastic philosopher has formed it, not after...
...WALL-L. A. G. Strong-Knopf ($2.50). Story of an Irish childhood, English schooling, the War, by the author of The Garden. JUNIPERO SERRA - Agnes Repplier- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Essayist Repplier writes the life of one of California's friar-pioneers. THE SIXTH NEW YORKER ALBUM- Harper ($2.50). Gleanings for the curious from the Manhattan smartchart. RIDDLES OF THE GOBI DESERT-Sven Hedin-Button ($5). More of the same oy the author of Across the Gobi Desert. THE ROOSEVELT REVOLUTION, First Phase - Ernest K. Lindley - Viking ($2.50). A Washington correspondent analyzes the New Deal. THE GREAT OFFENSIVE-Maurice...
Some of the tales that will strike a Western eye: the Bunyanesque vicissitudes of the stout-hearted Ling Ch'ung; the Decameronish deception of Wu the Elder by his wicked wife and the bawdy old woman; the Tattooed Priest, a kind of Friar Tuck of the outlaws; the robbers' rescue of the youth about to be executed. Though some of the incidents would never have passed Queen Victoria (in the 18th Century Shui Hu Chuan was banned in China as "licentious") they are narrated always with polite decency...
...Franciscan cowled in black stooped under the lintel and strode into the chamber, followed by a waddling friar and--was it a dog? The Vagabond eyed the Beast fearfully, the hound-like body, the leathery gray hide maculate with patches of glinting hairs, the beak, the swinging pink teats, its ebon Veneficium of Amor between almond eyes. The Beast slunk to the hearth where the Franciscan had established himself comfortably. "Be thou not afraid," the Holy Man intoned softly. "We are of the World Spirit, to comfort such as thou." Further events the Vagabond shall never recall clearly...
...cowled man commanded the Friar, and a lambent flame filled the chimney, cheering the room, driving out the chill mist. From the empty cupboard the servant produced a bottle of Maliga sacke and a fat capon. While the spitted fowl drank in the fire the monk talked of himself, of the joys of youth. "Thou'rt younge yet," be smiled. "And so was I, onely, methinks, a few houres gone. In everie pleasure reioycing, I imployed myselfe with all the wilde antickes of the sences. An apless knave, dauncing with the trulls, keping my stomacke better than my soule...