Word: paganisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mission to athletes, says Carty. College chaplains should challenge coaches and players to become "Christian sports" and "persuade alumni to ease off on this pressure for victory streaks and place the pressure . . . on fun and 're-creation.' Until this is done, our games are going to be pagan festivals, not Christian contests...
...plot concerns two Hollywood songwriters, one oafish, the other supposedly intelligent (although the difference is hard to tell), who get involved with two moth-eaten California Cleopatras. One of them is Billie, who talks exclusively in Southern-fried cliches; the other is Eva, statuesque, free, pagan, and therefore known as "The Greek." The story rambles from a Malibu motel to Acapulco; the characters whinny in bed, cry "Man, it's great!" and engage in minor unimaginative forms of sadism. It is just possible that Author Morris is kidding, but neither the lechers nor the beauty-shop matrons to whom...
François Mauriac, France's most famed living Catholic novelist, can say more in 150 pages than can most writers in twice that number. Mauriac seems to hold that the sins of a Robert Lagave are venial because he is the sort of mindless pagan who could scarcely recognize God if he met Him in a blaze of light on the road to Damascus. The real sinners are those who know God but love only themselves or their illusions. The killing of Robert Lagave brings with it a moment of shocked awareness that soon fades: Paula weeps...
...medieval city (which at one point had shrunk to a mere 15,000 malaria-ridden inhabitants). Michelangelo, Bramante and Raphael quarried out of the classic ruins the great principles they used in constructing St. Peter's (and quarried the ruins themselves for much of the stone). But even pagan Rome offered no precedent for an approach space to match in grandeur the massive bulk of the church...
Husband Goudeket shows how this unique "pagan love" operated in Colette's daily life. "There is only one creature! D'you hear, Maurice, there is only one creature!" she exclaimed to him once with "the intensity of a pythoness"-and from dawn to dusk she pursued the manifold forms of this one creature. First thing every morning, she must know just where the wind lay and the precise degree of humidity; around her bed were "a barometer, an outdoor thermometer . . . compasses . . . watches, chronometers, binoculars and magnifying glasses." After breakfast she would rush out into her garden like...