Word: pagans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only product of Adler's plan to improve teaching would be clones of Adler loaded with information about "history, great literature and art." These humanoid teachers might recite such catechisms while their students are trying to survive drugs, vandalism, rape, poverty and gang warfare. Edward R. Pagan University Park...
...ruthless, wrathful, foreign, purely pagan people": so one medieval Irish text described the Vikings. "They are the dirtiest of God's creatures," sniffed Arab Historian Ibn Fadlan, who had seen and smelled a Viking encampment on the banks of the Volga in the 10th century, "and they do not wash themselves after sex." Thus, as Hilaire Belloc sardonically put it in our own century...
...lesson in the nature of martyrdom, and eschews all the possible theatrics in the tale. He manipulates a sparse collection of performers--Becket, three priests, four tempters, four knights, and a chorus of women--through a ritual that both plumbs the deep seas of Christian theology and plunders pagan mythology for parallels and a natural background. The mutable verse form, with irregular rhymes and cyclical repetition, can hypnotically enthrall you even if you don't quite catch Eliot's meaning...
...Guide for the 20th Century Pagan (Macmillan; $9.95). In September Doubleday will issue the English version of dissident Roman Catholic Theologian Hans Küng's latest, which despite its 850 pages is a huge bestseller in West Germany. The title: Does God Exist...