Word: sabbath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each United Ministry member has a different formula for breaking down the wall of disinterest. There are members who put some faith in convenient, well-stocked facilities. An official at Hillel House claims that attendance at Sabbath services has more than doubled since they were moved from Hillel House to the more accessible Phillips Brooks House. The Rev. Joseph I. Collins points to the new Catholic student center, with library, common room, kitchen, TV, workroom, and ping-pong tables, as the cause of a great jump in Catholic Club membership...
...Richmond homeowner convicted of trapping animals inside the city limits. His crime: he had rounded up a few squirrels when they began to overrun his lawn, then deposited them unharmed in the countryside. ≫ A Charlottesville painter who had been found guilty of violating the Sabbath blue laws. He had been repainting the white lines of a grocery store's parking lot on Sunday, the only day the lot was free of cars. ≫ A woman who had received a parking ticket for leaving her Volkswagen more than twelve inches from the curb. All the nearby larger cars, which...
...Sabbath observance is one of Judaism's gifts to the ancient world, which had no concept of a regular weekly respite from work. Taking their cue from Biblical evidence that God rested on the seventh day of creation, Jews from the earliest days kept Saturday sacred as a time to abstain from manual labor and pray to the Lord God of Israel. The early Christians kept the principle, but gradually shifted the time of observance to Sunday. It proved sound against such onslaughts as the French Revolution's attempt to establish a ten-day week, and colonialism carried...
...Stalin quietly buried it in 1940. Now, except for certain shift work, the general rule in the Soviet Union is the five-day week, which means Saturday and Sunday off. It all goes to show that even people who don't hold that man was made for the Sabbath can readily believe that the Sabbath was made...
...right to rearrest the bailee at any time or place-even when he has no intention of jumping bail whatever. The bailee is "on a string," and the bondsmen "may pull the string whenever they please." The bondsmen may "pursue him into another state, may arrest him on the Sabbath; and if necessary, may break and enter his house for that purpose." In retrieving a prisoner from another state, the bondsman needs no warrant, only a court document called a "bail piece," which states his bail relationship to the defendant...