Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discuss the crisis in the Roman Catholic priesthood. The delegates to the second Europe-wide symposium of the Catholic hierarchy had hoped for an atmosphere of ecclesiastical calm. But out side the palace were 70 priests (some of them in sport coats and red ties), part of a protesting "shadow symposium" that had been hastily convened at a nearby hostel. Bullhorn in hand, French Dominican Jean Cardonnel, a fiery leftist whose Lenten address helped inspire last year's "May events" in Paris, set the tone of the protest. The servants of Jesus Christ, he said, were now joining...
...priestly celibacy and democratic election of church leaders. They also wanted to sit in at the symposium to discuss these demands, but the bishops voted to bar the rebel priests. A handful of liberal bishops did, however, push through a motion authorizing them to meet privately and unofficially with "shadow symposium" participants...
Histoire Naturelle. There was a giant strawberry in the bathroom. Across a pair of double doors appeared a huge butterfly that seemed to fly when the doors were opened. Between the windows in the dining room stood a delicately tattooed nude flanked by her green shadow. The master bedroom was turned over to Ernst's Histoire Naturelle, a subliminally suggestive panorama filled with prickly plants, grasshoppers and a lazy anteater carrying its baby over a brick wall. Some of the most charming reveries were reserved for the bedroom of the Eluards' five-year-old daughter Cecile, who went...
Many of Moscow's guests were unabashedly reluctant about their presence, and ready to resist any Soviet attempt to railroad unpalatable resolutions through the assembly. Over the conference hung the shadow of Russia's intervention in Czechoslovakia?a shadow that even the presence of a docile Czechoslovak delegation led by new Party First Secretary Gustav Husak was unlikely to dispel. Still echoing were the gunshots exchanged by Soviet and Chinese soldiers along the Ussuri River. Then there were the ghosts at the banquet, the men who had refused to come: China's Mao Tse-tung, North Viet...
...obvious restoration of Stalinism in our country -the head of Communist society -does not alarm you? We call upon you to examine the total seriousness of the situation and do everything that your conscience and reason tell you -everything that is in your power -so that the ominous shadow of Stalin will not darken our future...