Word: pastorale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Peking proclaimed its Great Leap Forward (TIME cover, Dec. 1, 1958), Sinkiang, normally a pastoral land, was marked out for a big coal and steel center at Kuldja. While grain rotted in the fields and neglected herds died, farmers were dragooned into factories, construction sites and 451 communes.
The result is a seven-disk set of remarkable clarity, in which the various elements of the orchestra stand forth in superbly wrought detail. In the comparatively calm air of the early symphonies and of the Pastoral, the orchestra sings with a kind of warmth and lyric affection typical of...
Running Away. For those who commit suicide, the committee recommends a special burial service. Those who are tempted or fail in an attempt should "be specially commended to the pastoral concern of the clergy," and the clergy should be "offered more help in understanding this part of their pastoral duty...
Died. Rafael Ignacio Arias Blanco, 53, plump, popular Roman Catholic Archbishop of Caracas, whose pastoral letter (1957), indicting Dictator Perez Jimenez for failing to relieve Venezuela's impoverished masses, triggered the opposition groups into action that toppled the dictator; in an auto accident; near Barcelona, Venezuela.
To win back France's Communist-led, largely unchurched working classes, the French cardinals in 1943 founded the "Mission to Paris." Specially trained young priests began to take jobs in factories to pursue their evangelizing mission more effectively; wearing overalls, they held fulltime jobs, said Mass and performed other...