Word: pastoralized
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...moved from his one-room country schoolhouse to Ohio Wesleyan University, where he earned a Phi Beta Kappa key and the nickname of "Octopus" for his numerous activities. He courted Zellah Endly, violin-playing daughter of a Methodist minister, and married her in 1916. When at 27 he became pastor of what was then called the Madison Avenue Methodist...
Wedded to all the Victorian proprieties, the widowed Mrs. Alving keeps her son ignorant of the drunken and dissolute life of his captain father. She stifles her longstanding passion for her minister, Pastor Manders. She never tells her maid that the girl is the illegitimate daughter of Captain Alving. Gradually, the fagade of respectability is stripped away-most cruelly by seeing her son in the last ravages of inherited syphilis. In belated, horrifying self-recognition, Mrs. Alving realizes that to save her face she has lost her soul...
Seamy Side. A pastor's son, Heldt took early in life to the seamy back streets of Berlin of the '20s, where blank-faced men and women stood bathed in the ghostly light of a single street lamp or hung around restaurants and bars that were tense and joyless, as if the whole city knew of the dark days just ahead. After Hitler came to power, Heldt quit painting, became a kind of vagabond doing whatever jobs he could find. He was drafted into the army in World War II, and spent three months as a British prisoner...
...other composers-even his beloved Germans-he was less kind. On Haydn: "The feelings that he put into tone were [those of] a country pastor, a rather civilized stockbroker. When he wept it was the tears of a woman who has discovered another wrinkle." Tchaikovsky's music was "as hollow as a bull by an archbishop." Chopin reminded him of "two embalmers at work upon a minor poet," and Richard Strauss of "Old Home Week in Gomorrah...
...annual procession in homage to Cuba's patroness, the Virgin of Charity. It is always held in the afternoon, but this year Castro's Interior Ministry decreed that it could only take place before 9 a.m. Havana's Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo Boza Masvidal, 46, pastor of Our Lady of Charity Church, refused, canceled the parade. But Havana's Catholics were not to be denied...