Word: stigmata
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Capuchin friar looked at his hands and what he saw terrified him so that he fainted; the frightened monks who came to help crossed themselves and called a doctor. The credulous who saw the blood flowing from Padre Pio's hands, feet and side cried, "It is the stigmata!" And the monk's fame began to spread...
...crossing watchmen and sand-lot ballplayers and lovers unashamed of their sport and owners of small sailing craft and old men playing pinochle in firehouses were the people who stitched up the big holes in the world that were made by men like me." > Moral deformity carries its own stigmata: "He was a tall man with an astonishing and somehow elegant curvature of the spine, formed by an enlarged lower abdomen, which he carried in a stately and contented way, as if it contained money and securities...
...this collection of speeches, magazine articles, free verse that should never have been given its liberty, manifestoes, taped interviews and reminiscence, Mailer presents to the world all the familiar stigmata of the left temperament-indignation, generosity of spirit and critical courage. But the one big fact that emerges from the welter is that-unlike the U.S. left of two previous generations-no Brave New World is promised. Socialism is no longer an issue. Utopia is out. The best the left can offer is seats for all in the same unbrave old world. Racial equality is the one issue on which...
...curate of St. Clement's, Schinderhook, N.Y., a beautiful young man of stupefying idiocy whom everyone calls "Sonny," is visited by the stigmata-the five wounds of Christ. He bleeds in reproach to the worldly and the clever, it is supposed. But any serious social or theological point is hopelessly compromised by Leary's relentless facetiousness, extracting what fun is available in copes, albs, chasubles, incense and the osseous relics of saints with humorous names. The pity is that Leary has evident talent and high spirits; if he could be persuaded to stay away from church...
...back an abandoned child. To other viewers, it may explain why Judy Garland at 39 looked like a puffed-up Edith Piaf even though today, at 40, she looks like a million. Merciless photography highlights the bags under the eyes and the wringing hands that are the stigmata of Judy in distress. And Costume Designer Edith Head has not helped by giving her a red chiffon outfit that makes Garland look like somebody had tried to stuff eight great tomatoes into a little bitty gown...