Word: pastorale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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USUALLY A LOGICAL, CAREFULLY ANALYTICAL approach will allow you to understand even the most obscure book, Themes can be grappled, symbolisms found and allusions unravelled. And basically if you really set your mind to it, you will at least be able to focus in on the novel's "meaning." But...
The plot is by far the easiest part of the book to follow: a man, dubbed Blue but really named Serge Gavotte (which is but the first of a myriad of musical jokes) begins a journey across America in search of the perfect musical phrase. Accompanied by his balding wife...
Ríos Montt has survived other challenges to his authority since the March 1982 coup that put him in the presidential palace. Leading the chorus of protest is the powerful Roman Catholic Guatemalan Bishops' Conference, which last month issued a pastoral letter condemning the government's human...
In a region where military strongmen have often held sway, the election of a civilian President in Honduras 2½ years ago was hailed as a triumph for democracy. For a time, it appeared that this nation of 4 million people, the poorest in Central America, might escape the turmoil...
The pastoral letter raises countless questions that the bishops must have considered in their meditations. Without nuclear deterrence, must Catholics support the huge outlay of money necessary to match our conventional forces with the Soviet Union's and so deprive domestic programs of funding? Must Catholics be conscientious objectors...