Word: troubler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spender sees it, an ideal student-rebel's contribution should be both non-mystical and nonpolitical: he should operate as a troubler of conscience and imagination. Today's rebels, who vacillate between instant saintliness and instant power, Spender-like most other observers-finds dangerously ill-informed. He is inclined to agree with Raymond Aron's judgment: "More sympathetic than the Communists, they are their intellectual inferiors." In matters of hunger, illiteracy and overpopulation, "they seem to take very little interest." "Students who attempt to revolutionise society by first destroying the university," Spender adds in a warning...
Father Bowles finds the troubler of his peace in Catherine Knott, "a researcher for a national news magazine," whose religiosity is so intense that "even on the hottest August days when she wore a sleeveless dress, or a thin frock, she looked like a formally attired Girl Scout." Although she seems to bear a sign, "Catholic virgin at work. Do not disturb," Father Bowles fails to heed the warning. He accepts a winter rendezvous in a secluded park corner, and when Catherine slips to her knees in the snow, Father Bowles kisses her. Like a badge of shame her lipstick...
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