Word: paganism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Loew's State--"The Pagan". A fairly good picture, chiefly notable as presenting Ramon Novarro in a singing role...
...again paid costly homage last week?by flying at each others' throats. There is no surer way of pleasing God Mexitl (see map). Exalted in that one of the 13 heavens which is his own?the fiery blue heaven, where the din of ghastly battle never ceases?this old pagan deity may well have looked down, last week, upon his people and exulted, "How little they have changed...
...great social and religious forces now interacting and savagely opposed were first generated in the 16th century when Spain overthrew the pagan empire in Mexico, imported the Catholic Church, and set up in Mexico City an inquisition to extirpate such beliefs as that in Mexitl...
...Master of Hestviken, unfinished tetralogy. Both concern marriage attained through unatoned sin, maintained despite suspicion and recrimination, resolved at last by death. But in Kristin Lavransdatter the heroine, for such she is, glows in all the golden vitality appropriate to a Viking female, and her man is a pagan philanderer; in The Master Ingunn, the heroine- by-courtesy, loses her pale beauty, though her master is a devoted and gentle husband...
...beginning Rautendelein was just a pale, elfin creature who lived in a German wood at the bottom of a well. She was really no being at all, just a light, pagan spirit who kissed men's eyes and made them well. And as such she came to Gerhart Hauptmann who put out his fingers swiftly and caught her for a play about a village bellcaster...