Word: saints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poverty-stricken Northeastern Brazil, a peasant named Ze, honoring the saint who spared the life of his injured donkey, carries a cross "as heavy as Christ's" 30 miles to the Church of Santa Barbara in Bahia. In the city, Ze's wife Rosa is seduced by a sneering pimp. Next morning a vindictive priest refuses to let Ze enter the church, scorning his promise to the saint as a pagan vow made through an intermediary god at a macumba ceremony. "Black magic," cries the priest. Ze shakes his head sadly. "My church has no image of Santa...
PAUL MATTHEWS-Zabriskie, 36 East 61st. The first one-man show by a young New Yorker who takes his titles from James Joyce, puns with lines much as the Irish writer did with words. His major painting is the Temptation of St. Anthony; the poor saint looks absolutely abashed by the frantics of the lewd nudes who surround him in a sea of fleshy tones, raw red mouths and undulating shapes. Twenty-seven oils. Through April...
Daniel's son regards his father with an eye as cold as a Boston cod. Encouraged by his wife, he decides to pack the old man off to a Catholic rest home, Saint Vincent's Smiling Valley. Such plot as / Was Dancing has is concerned with Daniel's infinitely crafty efforts to discourage his son and to remain on in the house as a nonpaying guest. But Novelist O'Connor is less interested in plot than in the smoky tang of Irish talk and in the embalmment of a cast of characters as Stereotyped...
Matson has a wonderful way of avoiding direct statements: "However, the most significant (and unintentional) tendency of Comte's pre-behavioral science, together with that of the Saint-Simonians generally, was what Albert Salomon has called the 'totalitarian potentiality' implicit in its simultaneous cerebreation of society and nullification of the individual...
Like his ancestor, whom he calls, "my patron saint--the rest of the Pettigrews were real bastards"--Pettigrew is a rebel, and loves it. On the day he was to testify before the Boston School Committee on the psychological effects of school segregation, he told a class that he hoped Committeewoman Mrs. Louise Day Hicks would charge him with being an outside agitator...