Word: calendar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jesus? "The catechism of the Jew is his calendar," said famed 19th Century Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch. There are five major festivals in the Jewish year, but the weekly observance of the Sabbath-from Friday's sunset to Saturday after sundown-as a day in which no work may be done, except for self-protection or to save life, is the core of Jewish religious practice. Rabbi Bernstein takes pains to point out how this custom of a day of rest "hewn from the social consciousness of a little desert tribe became in time an established practice...
Spring, to some people, means cocktail parties and dances, the resumption of the fall orgy. Some of the houses still have formal dances on the social calendar, and the Senior's week provides another outlet for male-female brawling...
...second sphere, that in which students have exclusive control, the organized extra-curricular activities and their budgetary control are included. A third, joint control sphere is concerned with the "obligations attendant upon the opening and closing of college and calendar days," and the broad question of "Vassar citizenship...
...little shop, with its shabby furniture, its smiling calendar nude and its big, faded poster of Rudolph Valentino, bore eloquent testimony to Francesco's low-key adventure in America. He had been swallowed up by the great city. Day after day he had stood beside a barber chair, clipping hair, shaving jowls. The 40 years had passed. Francesco? Nobody...
...broaden his operations, which eventually included all of Europe and the Americas. Lazaro was one of the first to go to Russia after World War I, came back with trunkloads of masterpieces. "Those Reds," he exulted, "don't even know the difference between a Rembrandt and a colored calendar...