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...place on Earth. The smell of incense, the touch of candle wax, the overly starched cotton of my surplice as I knelt before the sacred mystery of the Eucharist: in the words of the poet Philip Larkin, "a serious house on serious earth" this was, a refuge and a beacon, a rebuke to the chatter and trivia and destabilizing noise of the world outside and beyond. And the knowledge that these rituals, these words, these miracles, had been going on for centuries and centuries, reaching back to small groups of confused followers in the aftermath of the Resurrection, only intensified...
...Harvard must be a beacon of light for the nation, not a shadow of doubt,” Jackson said in an interview following the press conference...
Raymond says that “the ferocity of this young woman was demonstrated with her oar; in all other respects she was a beacon of humor, balance and goodwill whose smile and laughter brightened everyone in the boathouse...
...Brien stressed issues of fiscal responsibility and her record of strong leadership, while longtime Beacon Hill insider Birmingham, who also began with a smoothly-edited video, pushed hard on his background as a labor union lawyer...
Except for the gags, however, Democrats were serious about regaining control of Beacon Hill’s corner office after 12 years of looking in from the outside in a traditionally Democratic state...