Word: mourning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thousands of Catholics still mourn the disappearance of the old Latin Tridentine Mass. (In fact, it is still celebrated - illicitly - by a few rebel priests, like Father Gommar De Pauw of Westbury, N.Y.) Some Catholics find the new rite too cluttered with movement, hymns and communal prayers. "I feel a little bit lost," says Mrs. Theodora Nardi, 53, of Manchester, N.H. "I miss the time for silent prayer. Now you jump and sing...
...also believe they are descendants of Abraham, the Israeli-occupied West Bank's 650,000 Arabs, were outraged by the march and what it symbolized. In Ramallah, about three miles south of the festive marchers at Bethel, throngs of Arabs from all over the West Bank gathered to mourn the death of a Ramallah man and a boy and show their solidarity against the Gush Emunin marchers and the Israeli occupation. The man, Kalil Issa, 42, was gunned down on the main street of Ramallah by a local councilman suspected of collaborating with the Israeli occupiers. The boy, Jamil...
America is deep into its Age of Porn. The old narrow Puritanism is passing, and few mourn it. But the feeling of relief is mixed with growing unease and doubt: How will the current avalanche of porn change America? Many who oppose censorship now wonder if the mounting taste for porn is a symptom of decay, of corrosive boredom, of withdrawal from social concern for obsessive personal pleasures. Even those who argue that it is not harmful to the user, and that people ought to be free to do what
...mourn his passing we recall a refrain from "Freiheit", the Spanish Civil War song he immortalized...
...awareness has not killed chivalry, but it has subtly changed the rituals of social encounter between the sexes. Chivalry as an explicitly male-to-female practice has always implied a world of condescension-weaker women deferred to, cosseted, on the implicit theory that they were physically handicapped. Some women mourn its decline...