Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Intentionally vague about his political ideas, he claims to be a simple "union man." But his political goal seems to be an amalgam of Christian socialism and Polish nationalism. He has read Alexander Solzhenitsyn and shares his views of both Communist and capitalist shortcomings. "No system must make people forget that they are human beings," says Walesa. Then he adds enigmatically: "My own plans are far-reaching, but it is too early to reveal them...
...career began with The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964). In that play, Atahuallpa, who is both emperor and god of the Incas, is executed by the order of Pizarro, the Spanish conquistador. The most desolating moment of the play comes when Pizarro, who has lost faith in the Christian God, hopes against hope that Atahuallpa will be resurrected before his eyes. He is not. In Equus (1973), a boy blinds horses because he believes them to be gods who have witnessed his sinful transgressions. He duels with a psychoanalyst. Decrying his own dried-up rationality, the analyst envies...
After Majano's sacking, leaders of the military and the Christian Democrat Party held round-the-clock negotiating sessions to reshuffle the government. At week's end Christian Democrat Leader José Napoleón Duarte emerged as a civilian President, while Colonel Jaime Abdul Gutiérrez was made vice president and commander in chief of the armed forces. The existing junta will now act simply as a legislative body. Duarte, a prominent liberal, has been a key moderating force in the junta. Gutierrez has a reputation as a hard-lining conservative...
...each poet represented in this anthology there are uncounted others whose work has been diminished, dispersed or utterly lost. In A.D. 1073, virtually all existing copies of Sappho's work were burned in Rome and Constantinople, because the church perceived her lesbian love lyrics as a threat to Christian morality. In 12th century China the parents of Chu Shu-chen incinerated the body of the poet's work after her death, for reasons unknown. A few poems rescued by Chu's friends, and published in this book, are of luminous beauty...
...protected by his international reputation. Sadly, ironically, he watches as Western civilization slides into barbarism and banality. He is in Germany during the '30s as the Nazis twist science into racist doctrine. In postwar Hollywood he endures producers who change his King Arthur script from a heroic Christian epic to a cheap romance. Toomey is a lonely paradox: lacking an abiding spiritual faith, he can enjoy but not fully possess the material world...