Word: pastorale
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Indeed, Stuart's frank and biting insight andits manifestation in her writing is what savesMy First Cousin Once Removed from the fateof countless similar books before it--that ofeither just another whiny pseudo-Freudian accountof a life ruined by wealth or some tangentialbiography of a prominent man of letters. Stuarthas...
The church doesn't see it that way. "If she hadn't been 100% Jewish, she wouldn't have been killed," agrees Father Peter Gumpel, a senior Vatican saintmaker. But the roundup that doomed her was an explicitly announced reprisal for a brave Catholic stance: the Dutch bishops' denunciation of...
It is just possible, however, that this last situation may change. In Barcelona a movement is stirring among the city's Catholic hierarchy to push for the beatification and eventual canonization of Antoni Gaudi I Cornet (1852-1926), designer of the unfinished church of the Sagrada Famolia and the greatest...
A Jewish man from Newark, N.J., achieves worldly success and happiness only to have his life ruined by his deranged daughter. That is the central story of Philip Roth's American Pastoral (1997), which earlier this year was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Now comes Roth's I Married a Communist...
American Pastoral portrayed the impact on a single family of public events during the turbulent 1960s. I Married a Communist sets the calendar back to the late '40s and early '50s, the era of Red baiting and McCarthyism in the U.S., when communists, actual or accused, were hounded into disgrace...