Word: baptism
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...laundromat machines at the Graduate Center will receive an official "baptism" this afternoon, when-students will be given free laundry soap and free service...
...Supreme Court was asked to play Solomon last week in the case of two children instead of one. The question was legally knotty: To what extent should the courts let an infant's baptism affect its future...
...York court of appeals. The agency's contention: the decision violates the principle of church-state separation by determining custody of a child "not with reference to its welfare but solely on the basis of the religion into which it was baptized," thereby "giving legal sanction to the baptism...
...dwindling fortune makes him self-reliant, and his jumps through the rusty hoops of experience set up by Novelist Dos Passos make him a bore. Examples: Jay's first impotent foray into sex with a Greenwich Village "free love" addict; Jay seeing a friend die during his "baptism of fire" in World War I; Jay defending a pair of Sacco-Vanzetti-like philosophical anarchists without...
...thought of his conversion as almost entirely an intellectual step ("Since I was going to marry a Catholic, I determined to learn about Catholicism"). He was later able to write about his baptism with sardonic detachment: "The cathedral was a dark place full of inferior statues. I was baptized one foggy afternoon about four o'clock. I couldn't think of any names I particularly wanted, so I kept my old name. I was alone with the fat priest; it was all very quickly and formally done, while someone at a children's service muttered in another...