Word: pastorales
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Matey, youngest daughter of a clever, ineffectual professor in a Midwestern college, suffers like her brother and sister from the constant but never recognized warfare between her father and mother. Francis pretends not to notice, Priscilla becomes a terrified invert, Matey says nothing but notices everything. When her father dies...
Blunden is often classed as of the genus pastoral: his descriptions of English countryside have been likened to Wordsworth. He is a meticulous observer of the outdoors, and couches his observations in many a good old country term. In Near and Far his Muse wanders to Japan and through the...
*More cautious than many of these priests, the Archbishops of Malta and Gozo declared in their joint pastoral letter (TIME, June 16) that it would be a "grave sin" and the Vatican's White Book says that priests who exceeded this limit have been "recalled."
Acts cited include the Pastoral Letter issued early in May by the Archbishops of Malta and Gozo in which they declared that the Government of Malta was "in a state of rebellion against the word of the Pope" and announced that "Catholics, therefore, without committing a grave sin, may not...
Says Author Walpole, writing of England's northernmost county: "There is no ground in the world more mysterious, no land at once so bare in its nakedness a rich in its luxury, so warm with sun and so cold in pitiless rain, so gentle and pastoral, so wild and...