Word: pastorale
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THIS COMPLEX comedy of errors, however, is only an excuse for Wilde to poke fun at everything from English domestic life to French drama. Indeed, the structure of the play is a satire of the traditional English pastoral in which the degeneracy of the town is contrasted with the heightened...
Despite the benign temperament and capitalist success of the group's members, who dress in sunrise colors (orange, red and lilac), the rest of Wasco County has greeted them with an understandable mixture of bemusement, fear and anger. The Rajneeshees have been scouring the country in search of recruits...
He came to preach about "the issues of our time, concerning culture, the community, technology, the family, sharing and justice." But, he said, his visit was "essentially pastoral." As Pope John Paul II launched a twelve-day, 8,000-mile voyage across Canada last week, it seemed as if the...
His heirs-Boucher, Pater, Lancret-would embody rococo. But Watteau died in 1721, just over a year before Louis XV was crowned. Thus the artist whose feathery trees and pastoral scenes of gallantry seem the very essence of rococo sensibility only reached the edge of the rococo. His time was...
Or is the appeal of the Games simpler than all this? What one has here, after all, are simple contests, simple consequences, the simple delight of observers at basic human activities. Remove the 8,000 banners, the 52 miles of fencing, and the scene is pastoral. Someone jumps or throws...