Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humanity's quest for peace. "If the world is going to continue, and men and women are to survive in it," John Paul declared in English, "it cannot do without prayer. This is the permanent lesson of Assisi. It is the lesson of St. Francis, who embodied an attractive ideal...
Despite that ideal, the Pope's audience was aware that Assisi symbolically went well beyond the ceremonial friendship accorded other faiths by any previous Pontiff. The assemblage included not only monotheists but believers in creeds once labeled "heathen" and "pagan" by a church that for centuries had preached unambiguously that there was no salvation outside its walls. The astonishing variety of the invited group also raised suspicions among some Christians that Assisi represented a heretical step toward syncretism, the amalgamation of various conflicting religions. For this reason, U.S. Fundamentalist Gadfly Carl McIntire branded the meeting the "greatest single abomination...
...building the size of a gazebo. But in its earnest eagerness to please, the little building is more cute than contentious. John Syvertsen has envisioned a Wisconsin lake cottage as a kind of friendly folk pavilion: the tin chimney, latticework and exposed Y trusses satisfy the middle-class Arcadian ideal, while the broad stairs and hipped roof make the cottage nearly grand -- rustic classical...
...Paul Treat, a steam-headed avant-garde stage director who is definitely no gentleman. Treat is known for his manhandling of the classics -- Peer Gynt performed on stilts, As You Like It featuring seals. Before long he has Frances believing that stilts rescue Ibsen and that seals are ideal companions for Shakespeare's lovers. He also has her playing dubious "primal scenes" -- one is called "Rudolf and Mary," about the suicide pact at Mayerling -- repeated interminably until they become ordeals...
...enforce that control. Totalitarian regimes were thought to be (under Hitler and Stalin they certainly were) energetic, enthusiastic in an almost religious sense, on the march. Orwell's 1984 was not a parody. It was a mild extrapolation of totalitarian reality and a clinical picture of the totalitarian ideal...