Word: pastorale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The pastoral letter, issued Thursday by Archbishop Marcos McGrath and other bishops of the Roman Catholic Episcopal Conference of Panama, was read byCatholic clergy nation-wide and asked the DefenseForces not to use arms against "a defenselesspeople."
No surprise, then, that it was here in Pago Pago that Somerset Maugham set his famous confrontation between the missionary and Sadie Thompson. Or that discussions of Samoa's moral -- and cultural -- identity continue as heatedly as the much publicized debate between Margaret Mead's classic vision of pastoral innocence...
Ultimately, the sense of conditional freedom illuminates all his best work, which is to say nearly everything in this book. Oddly enough, given his Oxford education and bookish life, Larkin was one of the century's greatest pastoral poets. "At Grass" (about retired racehorses) and "First Sight" (about winter-born...
Benton left New York for good in 1935, returning to Missouri. By then the regionalist movement had formed around his "heroic" pastoral vision, and he felt obliged to repudiate the city, whose art world was, he announced, a veritable Sodom of fanatics like Stieglitz and "precious fairies" who "wear women...
In front of the Ralphola Taylor Community Center in the tough Newfield district of Bridgeport, Conn., Bob Doss gazes down at a slashed cat somebody killed just for fun. Nearby, sullen men eye a fence hawking boom boxes. The Taylor Center is home court for Doss's Upward Bound Academy...