Word: extinctions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state in your article entitled "As Others Saw Us" [Feb. 12], which reviewed Japanese Namban art, that Christianity became extinct in Japan after the Christian revolt of 1637. This statement is perhaps misleading...
Christianity became publicly extinct in Japan after 1637. However, the descendants of the Catholic converts kept their faith alive in secret. When the Dutch were later allowed to operate in Japan, representatives of these secret Catholics approached them. Upon learning that the Dutch neither honored the Virgin nor acknowledged the Pope in Rome, contact was dropped. When Japan was once again opened to foreign contact in the 19th century, representatives of the hidden Christians again sought contact with the foreign missionaries. Once Catholic priests were located, a community of secret Catholics numbering in the thousands and centered around Nagasaki revealed...
...there were 300,000 converts by 1600, and religion and trade were inseparable) until the priests' meddling in Japanese political life enraged the Tokugawa government and persecutions began in 1612. In 1637, a rebellion of Christian peasants was crushed, 37,000 of them were killed, and Christianity was extinct-along with all further contact with the West. Most Namban religious art also perished, except for some rare tea bowls decorated with the cross or an occasional lacquer...
WITNESSING the rebirth of an International Commission of Control and Supervision (ICC) for Viet Nam is rather like seeing an extinct species spring magically back to life. Soon after the old ICC-which still exists, in vestigial form-was created by the Geneva agreements in 1954, it settled down into a routine of quarrelsome impotence. Lacking any mutually acceptable alternative, Washington and Hanoi seemed determined to try again with a peace-keeping mechanism that has a proven history of failure...
...peculiar sub-group, spawned by World War II and already half-extinct. They are the people who wanted to get away from the staleness of the Old America and the vulgarity of the new; who wanted to live beautifully in beautiful surroundings; to raise intelligent children in absolutely authentic rural centers. Eventually, they brewed up their own kind of staleness and vulgarity...