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...moment during a history lecture freshman spring, however, convinced me that this cynical take required revision. In the midst of an involved foray into the thickets of semiotic schemata, the professor paused to question the class: Did we know that the French founder of structural anthropology was—remarkably—still alive? A rapid bout of mental math assuring us that this was in fact possible, the statement made quite an impact. In a sea of Saussures and Sartres, the mausoleum of dead white men that European intellectual history inevitably erects, the bespectacled ethnographer’s continued...
...specified time interval; dancer B repeats event #1, adds event #2 and executes the sequence #1 & #2 in the same specified time interval; dancer performs events #1 & #2 & #3 in the same specified...and so on. An entire issue of The Drama Review recently was devoted to similar schemata, labeled "post-modern dance" by the editor...
Strange Voices. In his opening address to the bishops, the Pope declined to comment on any of the schemata on the fourth session's agenda. "Our silence has been deliberate," said he. "It is a sign of our unwillingness to compromise your freedom of opinion." Still, some council observers wonder how the bishops could help being influenced by the warnings against imprudence that the Pope has issued this year. In August, for example, he warned against "strange and confused voices" even among the bishops who have been questioning "principles, laws and traditions to which the church is firmly bound...
When the bishops assembled in the aula of St. Peter's for the first session of the Vatican Council in 1962 their agenda contained 70 schemata (drafts of decrees) with drastic editing, the work load of the council has been brought down to a more manageable 16 items. Five have already been promulgated: decrees on mass communications, the Oriental Churches and ecumenism and constitutions on the nature of the church. This session, four schemata will be dicussed ln full, then revised and discussed again before a final vote. Simultaneously, the bishops will vote chapter by chapter on the revised...
Fears for the Future. On the ceremonious closing day of the council, Pope Paul formally promulgated the impressive and progressive-spirited schemata on ecumenism and the church, as well as a shorter document on the Oriental church. Before the third session ended, the bishops also voted approval of the revised declaration on non-Christian religions, which firmly asserts that the Jews were and are not guilty of deicide; this declaration may be touched up between sessions and will be given final approval at the-fourth session, which may not take place until...