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...keep up suspense and excitement and to encourage more people to attend, the names of the bride and groom were not announced before the ceremony. Only after the stag party and bridal shower did the organizers of the $240 gals inform the bride and groom privately of their respective roles. The Stanford Daily reported recently...
...themselves, mother teaching daughter, so that they were weaker than men, unable to run away (a man could catch them at a walk), and resigned to being housebound. Motivation? To be in proper shape for the marriage market, essentially a family affair, not a girl's choice. Indeed a bride was ideally supposed to be bloodily deflowered on her marriage bed by a bride groom she had never seen before. Rage today may be an easier experience...
...shotgun wedding promoted by the ecumenical commission between progressive Anglicanism and the hard-shell Catholicism of John Paul II has no chance of success. When the modern bride-to-be realizes that her bridegroom goes apoplectic over abortion, birth control, compromise between clerics and laity, divorce and myriad other issues accepted by her generation, she will undoubtedly choose to go it alone...
This glimpse is what Singer's stories constantly offer. To catch it, his readers are not required to believe in demonology but merely to agree that much of life is otherwise inexplicable. Why would a devout Jewish husband tempt his beautiful new bride into adultery with a loutish footman? What could prompt a spirited girl to masquerade as a yeshiva boy and then marry a village's most eligible heiress? In The Cabalist of East Broadway, a morose old Hebrew scholar suddenly abandons New York City for a young wife and fame in Israel. Just as suddenly...
Though nothing else in the show is quite so majestic, it is full of striking religious images. There is, for instance, the white room containing the paintings of Sister Gertrude Morgan (1900-80). Convinced that her fate was to be the bride of Christ and to bear witness to Scripture, she covered hundreds of panels with hortatory texts and vibrant images of heaven and hell; in New Jerusalem, circa 1965-75, the choiring angels burst into white bloom like magnolias around a many-chambered house...