Word: pastorale
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In the final episode, a lovely pastoral set in a village of water mills, a 103-year-old man explains the secret of longevity to the figure (Akira Terao) who is Kurosawa's surrogate in six of these tales. In essence, he tells him to live in harmony with nature...
This comes through very strongly in the work of the Catalan artist Joaquim Sunyer (1874-1956), chief painter in the Noucentista group, a circle of artists and writers who reacted against art nouveau in Barcelona after 1906. Sunyer's Pastoral, 1910-11, was owned by Joan Maragall, Catalonia's finest...
En route the trekkers were outnumbered by hostile Zulu warriors, but spears were no match for cannons. Any hope for reconciliation vanished when diamonds and gold were found in the interior. The discovery, says Sparks, produced "the watershed event in South African history. Overnight it turned a pastoral country into...
The Trump story has been a media circus: Barbara Walters raising her glass to toast Ivana. Only in this atmosphere does it seem unsurprising that a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church (John O'Connor of New York) would publicly discuss the pastoral visit of one of the separating partners...
No one could accuse Pope John Paul II of being soft on celibacy. The Roman Pontiff frowns upon even hypothetical discussions about relaxing the church's centuries-old ban on married priests. Yet this is the same Pope who in 1980 approved an experiment in which 43 married men have...