Word: passion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crucified on a hill outside Tlaltenalco. He had been scourged; real thorns bloodied his head; those about the cross wore armor-not of Roman soldiers but such as Cortes' men had worn when he brought the cross and sword to Mexico 435 years before. It was the annual Passion play* of Tlaltenalco, and there were tourists, who did not fail to note that Manuel's beard was paper. It came unstuck and fell off somewhere along his Via Dolorosa...
...contention of Italian Novelist Carlo Coccioli that both events-Passion and Passion play-had an identical reality for the witnesses. In the modern world, argues Coccioli, an Oberammergau can only be a charade; since the Middle Ages, it is only in a place like Indian Mexico, with its hallucinatory sense of time, where past and present are meaningless, that the supernatural can be accepted as reality and the actual world as an illusion...
...meets his John the Baptist, a peddler named Guadalupe, a fanatical Cristero veteran of Mexico's religious wars. They wander among shrines and through deserts until the boy becomes convinced that it is his destiny to unite in his person Christ and the Lord Tepozteco. The Passion play of Tlaltenalco gives him his opportunity, and he enters the village on Palm Sunday, riding a Chevrolet...
...news of another sort of Passion-play story, see CINEMA...
...painfully. This collection includes 34 new poems, written over the course of five years. Included is a series of love poems, a kind of epithalamium to his young wife, who was his student at Bennington. They are reminiscent in their intensity, in their bemused exploration of the interplay of passion and spiritual love, of the poems of John Donne...