Word: neopagan
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...Ryan) is a poet who sees the stars only when he is wallowing in the mud. He is modern, and not quite human. He is really a child of myth and philosophy. His symbolic antecedents are the Biblical false gods of ancient fertility rites and orgiastic sensuality, and the neopagan doctrines of Nietzsche's Dionysian antiChrist. What Brecht conceived of was not so much a free soul as an animal will, ruthlessly, amorally, narcissistically possessed by his creature instincts...
Toward a New Ethic. Today, argues Driver, the world is full of neopagan sex worshipers-Norman Mailer questing for the "good orgasm," for example. The church today should therefore follow Jesus and seek to "demythologize" sex, proclaiming that man can sin sexually but in much the same way that he sins with money or political power. "The construction of a Christian ethic of sex," Driver concludes, "cannot be properly attempted as long as one retains the mythology of sex that grew up in the ancient religions, is perpetuated in new ones, and from which Jesus as the Christ would liberate...
...have written had he had to add an Eleventh Day to the Decameron in Italy in 1970. But Directors Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Vittorio De Sica, each contributing a story to this motion picture triptych, give moviegoers not so much the unself-conscious bawdry of Boccaccio as the neopagan body worship that a witty Vatican editorialist recently styled "erotic vagrancy...
...imagery, the poet celebrates the sea as the ever-renewing source and symbol of life. In endless variations on this theme, Perse evokes man's grandest and loneliest moments, his immemorial past, his intimations of a nobler future. With its Invocation. Strophe, Chorus and Dedication-and its sensuous neopagan salute to raw nature-Seamarks reads a little like a drama put on for the approval of the gods on Olympus. A long section symbolizing union with the sea might pass for impassioned love poetry. The final evocation is one of renascence: "The javelins of Noon quiver in the gates...
...Respect for Christianity, and curbing of the Nazi neopagan cult headed by Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, "Cultural Leader of the Nazi Party...