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...Absent Eminences. Its immediate purpose was to prepare an agenda for another meeting, which would in turn prepare an agenda for a full-dress synod-the first in more than ten centuries. At this synod, the patriarchs themselves will make canon law on such matters as litur gical revisions, calendar reform, theological minutiae, and relations between the churches. Thus the patriarchs themselves stayed away from Rhodes; the conference was presided over by venerable Chrysostom, 81, Metropolitan of Neapolis, Thasos and Philippi, and was actually run by an Athenagoras protégé-slim, black-bearded and also named Chrysostom...
Besides Athenagoras, two other absent eminences dominated the deliberations. One was Pope John XXIII, whose nine years' residence in Istanbul as apostolic delegate has made him exceptionally knowledgeable about Eastern Orthodoxy and sympathetic to it. The other was Moscow's Patriarch Alexei, represented by Archbishop Nikodemus, 32, the youngest bishop in the Russian Church...
...Time Being is relatively upbeat. No one dies. Yet no one lives, either; like a quarter section of Spoon River Anthology, the human crop is sown with indifference and raised in contumely. It is only because Author Julia Siebel speaks with an oldfashioned, simple authority now almost absent from U.S. fiction that her lugubrious chronicles about doomed small folk deserve to be read...
Like all the Greek tragedies, Electra is divided into heroes, gods and women. Here, the gods are remote, the hero Orestes largely absent, and it is the women who seem demoniacally possessed. Before the play begins, Clytemnestra and her ambitious paramour Aegisthus murder King Agamemnon, Electra's father, upon his return from the Trojan War. After that, treated like an outcast in the palace, Electra counts on her brother Orestes to return and avenge their father. At Orestes' seeming death, a clever display of Sophoclean theatricality, her hopes are dashed only to spiral into joy when her brother...
Politically, Aragon is as devoted a party man as ever, but as a novelist, at least, he seems to have taken temporary leave from Communism's orientation classes; in Holy Week, the familiar Marxist missionizing is mercifully absent...