Word: religio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imaginary. The author has an advance from his publisher, and he is going to see the thing through, complete with wiring diagrams and interviews with little green men. The case of the beatniks is similar; the unwashed T shirts are tangible enough, but is there anything new, socio-religio-artistically speaking, inside them? The author of this Baedeker to Beatland says, naturally, that there is. The barbarians, he reports, are within the gates of U.S. civilization, armed "not with the weapons of war but with the songs and ikons of peace...
...Archbishop James, succeeding Metropolitan Michael, who died in New York last July. But behind his election loomed a split in the Greek Orthodox Church, and outright mutiny against towering, white-bearded Athenagoras I of Constantinople, 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Athenagoras' enemies call him a "religio-politician," while his friends point to the unique problems of a job in which his predecessor went mad. The Patriarch of Constantinople has only the power of persuasion among three others of equal rank, ruling the patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem. For "Elder Brother" Patriarch Athenagoras, 72, adroit politics...
Last week, the announcement made, the problem was whether Religio-Politician Athenagoras could also swiftly heal the wounds opened by his maneuver. Some worried that the rumbling dissidents might try to force him out. Should they succeed, the seat of Eastern Orthodox Church power could well shift to the patriarchy called "the third Vatican"-Moscow. Against such fears stood the new reconciliation between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus (see FOREIGN NEWS), which tended to downgrade "anti-Turkish" charges against Metropolitan James. One of the Cyprus reconcilers: James himself, who in London last week helped swing Archbishop Makarios behind the agreement...
...bearer was God's son, and he soon finds out the terror of being immortal on earth: where there is no death, there is no love, at least not in the human sense. The Wanderer leaves his city.-and his age-to take his problem to that renowned religio-psychological clinic, the Delphic oracle...
Like many of his other plays, this one is a comedy-fantasy with serious underpinning; it is a sort of religio-moral allegory in which people "practice charity the poetic way" by doing "welfare work for the soul" through illusion, collusion and delusion. The idea yields an intriguing story, but Casona tends to create character stereotypes instead of individuals (even introducing irrelevant personages for their gimmick potential in act one). Although Casona may at times hammer his points too strongly, he has sprinkled the play with witty epigrams, e.g.: "But, Grandmother, architects don't build old houses-time does...