Word: sinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sin of Father Amaro, by Eca de Queiroz. Published in 1874 but now available in the U.S. for the first time, this early novel by Portugal's greatest writer of prose is a chilling and corrosive indictment of the priest-ridden society of Portugal in the 1860s...
...Reds were suddenly "more papist than the Pope." In fact, the Vatican is quietly backing Fanfani's Christian Democratic-Socialist partnership, though publicly it has steered a neutral course; this time, for example, parish priests are not saying that to vote for the Socialists is a grave sin...
...whom Shakespeare prophetically wrote: Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. -Burton's voice and Welsh background also made him a natural for the documentary, A Tribute to Dylan Thomas, winner of a Hollywood Oscar a fortnight ago. *A housemaid's journal in Britain, now defunct. -Rex is suing...
...SIN OF FATHER AMARO (352 pp.) -fco de Queiroz-S/. Morl/n...
...middle-class mold while preserving his essence intact. His hero was Rimbaud, most gifted of all those who have opted out of civilization. Brenan wrote pieces in the manner of Rimbaud's Illuminations, and when other boys were crunching candy, he, with no more fuss or sense of sin, munched hashish. With characteristic simplicity, he had written for the stuff to a London chemist, who obligingly supplied the young collector of herbs...