Word: poetes
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...16th century but in this case put through by the willpower of a single personality. Unlike John XXIII, who had led a sheltered life in seminaries and nunciatures, John Paul was a man of the world who had suffered under Nazism and communism. He was a philosopher, poet and dramatist, but also a very experienced fund raiser and administrator. His pastoral experience was determinative. In Poland he had founded and run perhaps the most successful marriage institute in Christianity, set up to deal with the problems of marital discord, family planning, illegitimacy and venereal disease, alcoholism, wife beating and child...
...wrote the Romantic-era Polish poet Juliusz Slowacki in 1848, lines so visionary and improbable -- a Pole as Supreme Pontiff! -- that few, even in long-suffering Poland, believed they would ever come true. In 1938, however, a Polish teenager would be singled out for what would eventually be an appointment with prophecy. In that year, Karol Wojtyla was a student -- and an actor of considerable promise -- at a secondary school in the grimy industrial town of Wadowice. As the school's prize orator, he was asked to deliver a speech welcoming a grand visitor, the princely Adam Sapieha, scion...
...Pope's reading is eclectic: philosophy, history, sociology -- all in the original languages. He will take time for serious fiction and poetry: he knows Dostoyevsky and the other great Russians and has a special fondness for the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. He rarely watches TV -- except for a brief glance at a soccer match -- or reads a newspaper other than Cracow's weekly Catholic paper; he relies instead on a daily summary of the news prepared by aides to Angelo Cardinal Sodano, 67, the Vatican's Secretary of State...
...circumstance and one another. Amanda Wingfield, an erstwhile Southern belle, clings to the past. Her daughter Laura is a physical and emotional cripple who can bear to do nothing more challenging than tend her collection of miniature glass animals. Laura's brother Tom, a warehouse worker with a poet's soul, longs to escape the family he is obliged to support...
Dante, observed the poet Richard Wilbur, wrote "from the center of a diamond." What Wilbur meant was that Dante's society was aligned in such a way that the sound and sense of his verses could emanate clearly throughout the Italian-speaking world, effectively defining a culture. American leadership enjoyed its own Diamond Age during the decades following World War II. Whatever was performed by the men at the gem's center, which was Washington, was amplified clearly around the country, redefining it. For those ambitious to lead (and those just keeping score), the paths to the center were crystal...