Word: veiled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current television series was taped before he went to Rochester, has lost none of his flair for phrase making. Describing the church's problems in one pastoral letter, he wrote: "God is telling us something in the new situation in which we find ourselves. The rending of the veil of the Temple in an earthquake opened up the Holy of Holies to the world, and the earthquake of secularism has shaken us out of hiddenness and complacency...
...artifice concerned Zeuxis: when he unveiled his painting of grapes, birds flew down to peck at them. What the anecdotists seldom added is that Zeuxis' rival won the contest, for when the judges turned to unveil his painting, they were stunned to discover that the veil itself was the painting and declared him the winner because he had fooled the judges, while Zeuxis had fooled only birds...
Baffled by the equal credibility of both witnesses, the investigators demand to see the wife. She appears in a heavy black veil, announces that she is the mother-in-law's daughter and the son-in-law's second wife. "For myself," she says, "I am she whom you believe me to be." In one of the many meanings he intends, Pirandello says that truth is in the eye of the beholder...
Obsessed with illusion and reality, Pirandello was ironically amused at the assurance of most people that they can tell which is which. He held the self to be an impenetrably veiled mystery. The character named Laudisi (Donald Moffat), who speaks for Pirandello in the play, says: "What can we really know about other people? Who they are, what they are, what they are doing, and why they are doing it?" The busybodies of the world who try to lift that veil find no truth, but they do uncover the pain at the heart of existence. If the motherin...
...through the streets of Chicago. In the heavily Catholic Gage Park neighborhood, an angry youth in a jeering mob yelled, "This is for you, nun!" and threw a brick at her. The missile struck Sister Angelica on the back of her head, opened a cut that soaked her black veil and white collar with blood. Unashamed, the crowd cheered...