Word: paganization
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Nostalgia for the past "is an old pagan disease. There is nothing Christian in it. The Church in her teaching and liturgy shows no signs of nostalgia. She does not dream of a Golden Age to which she longs to return. For her the Second Adam is infinitely better than the first. Man after the Fall, sinful but redeemed by Christ, is better off than before the fall...
Latin Brio. The neo-pagan life of love and love of life revealed to Carmela in these reveries make The Film of Memory a sensuous shelfmate to David Garnett's recently published Aspects of Love (TIME, Jan. 30). French Novelist Maurice Druon, a Prix Goncourt winner, applies Latin brio and an urbane Gallic prose style to his tale, and he can navigate the rapids of a zany stream of consciousness without drowning the reader...
Patrick soon runs an erotic fever of his own over a nubile, neo-pagan teenager named Soula. Little more than fugitive kisses and caresses, the affair with Soula is tragically complicated by the fact that her brother Stavro, a boy with crypto-homosexual longings, feels he should rank first in Patrick's affections. By novel's end, Soula has died at her brother's hand. Resignedly estranged from each other, Patrick and Iris leave Corfu chewing the bitter rind of memory, all that is left of their brief repast of the juices and joys of the sensuous...
...Days. In Los Angeles, Myron C. Pagan and his son Bruce brought a $2,995 damage suit against Clifford Lee Smith after their 60-pound Airedale dropped dead of a heart attack when Smith's two smaller dogs barked...
...mind, a sense of having done little where he has done much, but you will not in all probability find any rapport. While the story is not typical of those born at the turn of the century, (as he suggests, he "has always been a converted Pagan living among apostate puritans,") it has certainly many familiar threads for men of his temper and background. But for me, it is only a strange alien tale...