Word: pious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old woman, a friend of the family but no friend to chastity. In relatively few lines, Soldati carpenters a cross for his hero. Should he have faith in his passion or give up his passion for the faith? Neither his mother, plagued by desires of her own, his pious grandmother, his innocent playmates, nor his latently homosexual confessor can answer that question for Clemente...
Novelist Soldati is thoroughly at home with his sensual theme. His book is a better story of the emotional conflicts of a pious and troubled boy than the classic account of the same situation in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. With Irishman Joyce, what stands out authentically is a belief in damnation; with Italian Soldati, it is temptation that is real. Whether or not readers accept the possibility of eternal damnation, Soldati is utterly convincing about the existence of eternal woman...
...Split. Wolsey created an apparatus of state about his King-the framework of a modern national administration. Henry himself grew under the cardinal's tutelage-one of the King's first diplomatic coups was a pious book presented to the Vatican, which won him the title still borne by British monarchs: "Defender of the Faith." Said the King's jester, wiser than his cardinal: "Prithee, Good Harry, let thee and I defend one another and leave the Faith alone to defend itself...
Footprints in the Snow. The old woman's story runs thus: she was once a simple, pious country girl who was groomed for the role of prophetess at Delphi's prosperous temple. There she was clothed in a bridal robe, learned to get along with the temple snakes, eat the sacred laurel and become the ecstatic "bride" of the god who emanated from the cleft of a rock in the depth of the earth. As a Pythia she was alone, a social outcast, feared and avoided by the plain people of Delphi. She was totally filled with...
Signs & Wonders. Those adept at deciphering the message in a parable will be happy to wrest their own truth from The Sibyl. The supporting cast of human symbols is not hard to identify: there are the Pythia's pious, humble parents; the lowly, kindly oracle servant ("little friend of god and man"); the mean old spy who cares nothing for god but only for his temple. These are, for good or ill, like unto other men. But the Pythia and the Wanderer are set apart because they have been touched by God; he works on them not merely "signs...