Word: burial
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...years, ex-Navy Steward Hubert Ashe had to live with the harsh consequences of a dishonorable discharge. Though he had served from the Sicilian invasion to the Japanese occupation, Ashe was barred from 46 Government benefits, including free education, hospitalization, housing, unemployment compensation and burial in Arlington National Cemetery. Like other ex-servicemen in the same fix, Ashe had no right of appeal in any court. It was, he says, "really like dying...
...revisions, plus a few new ones recommended by a church liturgical commission. The text of these changes was published this month, but will not go into effect until May. Although modest enough, the 1928 changes do excise some of the gloomiest theologizing of the Anglican past. The burial service, for example, omits "man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery." In the Te Deum, God, who "didst not abhor the Virgin's womb," becomes who "didst humble thyself to be born of a virgin...
...trusted . . . hath lifted up his heel against me." Jesus' "stratagem," says Schonfield, was "designed to pile on the pressure at the crucial moment and induce the traitor to act." When Mary washed his feet with precious ointment, Jesus let "fall the words about his body being anointed for burial." Like "an inspiration it came to" Judas "that money was to be made by doing what Jesus plainly wanted. The tempter came in the guise of his Master," says Schonfield...
...rites of passage" through which families and tribes can rid themselves of their dead and return to normal living. Negro funeral parades, Greek klama (ritual weeping), Irish wakes-each in their own way fulfill this function. Orthodox Jewish families are supposed to "sit shivah"; for seven days after the burial they stay home, wearing some symbol of a "shredded garment," such as a piece of torn cloth, and keeping an unkempt appearance. Friends bring food as a symbol of the inability of the bereaved to concern themselves with practical affairs. For eleven months sons are enjoined to say the prayers...
...real story of Goldwater's landslide burial is that he did not lead his campaign. It is a story that still has not been told well enough. Shaddeg and many others have made the generalization; no one has yet furnished the details and the insight that wold make the generalization useful...