Word: paz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other times, Mora becomes too engrossed in writing in a folk tradition and falls into the trap of sentimentality and kitsch. "Corn and trees glow in the sunset, grace manifest May our work enrich the earth. Hear our request/This night and at our death, en paz may we rest," she writes in "Saint Isidore the Farmer." Such passages lose the transcendent quality that should mark them as religious poetry. They are too focused on this earth. More often than not, though, Mora manages to find the right balance between religion and reality, between the glory of the next life...
First, something about guest referee Vinny Pazienza seemed to ruffle the chicken's feathers, prompting a scuffle that ended with Paz landing a knockout blow. The man in a zebra suit won out over the man in the chicken suit...
...recognize in ourselves the temptation that Paz meant--the liberating flash of decision, the mad, giddy flight. The spectacle of such love is bracing, even when scandalous and self-destructive--or perhaps because of that. In Emma Bovary's case, Flaubert pursued the story past the giddy dash to a sadder place down the road (dead end, suicide...
...Octavio Paz, the Nobel-prizewinning author who died last week, wrote a masterpiece years ago called The Labyrinth of Solitude. The book contained, among other things, a treatise on the dynamics of passionate love: "To realize itself, love must violate the rules of our world. It is scandalous and disorderly, a transgression committed by two stars that break out of their predestined orbits and rush together in the midst of space. The romantic conception of love, which implies a breaking away and a catastrophe, is the only one we know today because everything in our society prevents love from being...
...Paz was writing about the constrictions of the Mexican society of 50 years ago. The scriptwriters of Titanic (favorite movie of Vili Fualaau and Mary Letourneau) composed a variation on the theme of impetuous breakaway. In 1936, just as the world was preparing to blow itself apart, England's King Edward VIII and Wallis Warfield Simpson enacted their drama of self-absorbed abdication. The basic story changes little, only the details: the personalities, the stakes they play for, the icebergs waiting in the dark, and as we now see, the ages of the lovers...