Word: saint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vonnegut can't blame his publishers for these childish sketches, which I assume were included to pad the novel out. In many ways, these drawings, along with the over-simplified prose indigenous to the Vonnegut novels I've lived in, remind me of The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint Exupery. This is a heavy classic, the kind of children's book where adults can find "deep awareness." But if The Little Prince has any content, Breakfast of Champions has none. My creator's general idea is to take order and make of it utter chaos. He reasons that...
...invoking the favors of St. Joseph, his patron saint, and handing out bottles of burned sacramental olive oil, Brother André reportedly cured as many as 15,000 crippled, blind and dying pilgrims a year. When he died in 1937, at the age of 91, half a million people filed past his bier, and Brother André was put up for sainthood...
...case is still pending in the Vatican. At the oratory, in the meantime, he is being accorded the full trappings of a saint. The oratory publishes a comic book about his life, sells bottles of his "St. Joseph's oil," and maintains a tiny wooden chapel that he built as a holy place. Inside the cathedral, 3,000,000 pilgrims a year file past his marble tomb. Also in the gallery, until recently, was Brother Andre's heart, preserved in an urn filled with a formalin solution. Then on the night of March...
...Patron Saint. Students pack lectures on Marxist philosophy, political science, sociology and economics-not only at such well-known leftist strongholds as West Berlin's Free University and the "Red" French universities of Nanterre and Vincennes but also at Catholic institutions like Belgium's Louvain or Nijmegen in Holland. Publishers have found a vigorous market for works by and about a variety of Marxists: not only such dogmatic mainstream interpreters as Lenin and Mao, but a host of differing theoreticians, ranging from Leon Trotsky to former Czechoslovak Communist Party Leader Alexander Dubcek, who was toppled...
Marx has become the oft-invoked patron saint of a new style of far-left political activism. There are at least 800 left-wing organizations in Western Europe, operating outside-and often directly against-the established Communist and Socialist parties. Although these organizations vary widely in strength and strategy, they are clearly different from the ad hoc fronts that united the rebellious students who took to the barricades in Paris, Rome and Berlin in the spring of 1968. Essentially romantics, those earlier revolutionaries took their inspiration from Berkeley and Columbia. If they carried the red flag of Marxism, they seemed...