Word: sacredness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seymour's spirit pervades the life of all the extant Glasses. As the oldest child, he initiated them into Zen and other mystical religious cults, and guided them in the ways of discovering whatever is inadequate or phony in their fellows. Dead, he became their high priest or Guru: his...
Meeting with Two Russians. Slipyi's release is the diplomatic handiwork of two close Curia friends of Pope John-Augustin Cardinal Bea, chief of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, and Gustavo Cardinal Testa, secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church, which supervises Byzantine-rite Catholics. Late...
The female majority of novel readers may enjoy being told that "to worship woman is to redeem the world." The Western male, however, may feel as mixed up as the lady who called Rama a "lecherous eunuch," and wonder about the Eastern profundities that sprinkle the book like sacred coconut...
Mexico's bestselling novel of all time is, ironically, a bitter attack on the most sacred event in Mexican history: the 1910 Revolution. It takes an exceptional writer to go against his native grain and still be popular. But Mariano Azuela wrote The Underdogs with such unsparing honesty that...
Killing for Enchiladas. The characters who claim to have noble motives for rebelling are shot down with literary marksmanship by Azuela. An intellectual journalist "from the city" joins the peasants and awes them with his ideology: "We are the tools Destiny makes use of to reclaim the sacred rights of...