Word: rediscoverers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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On the thorny question of reforming Catholic teachings and practices, which has divided the bishops of the Ecumenical Council between conservatives and progressives (and will go on dividing them during the coming session), the Pope kept the ambivalences dancing. "Naturally," he wrote, "it will be for the Council to suggest...
THE FIANCES. Italy's Ermanno Olmi (The Sound of Trumpets) brings total mastery of his art to this wispy tale of a long-engaged couple who must lose each other to rediscover their love.
Powers of Bitchery. As Elizabeth Bowen's new novel (her first since 1955) opens, the little girls have become sad-eyed, sixtyish English gentlewomen. Dicey is now Dinah Delacroix, a handsome if slightly dotty widow who lives on her Somerset estate in equivocal intimacy with a cross-eyed, 19...
MOST black Africans only learned to write down their songs and tales in the past hundred years, but they are heirs to centuries of oral literature. In their search for an African identity, the continent's contemporary poets-many of them leading politicians-today have forsaken their mission-school...
Indonesia, Malaya and the Philippines are "triplets who became separated at birth, who were placed under the care of different foster parents but who have now come of age and are trying to rediscover their common origin and shape their common destiny." This description of the three Malay states was...