Word: candlelight
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Well, sure, New Orleans has its French Quarter, decorated streetcars, traditional Creole and Cajun holiday dishes and a spectacular candlelight Mass at St. Louis Cathedral. But what's really unusual about Christmas in the Big Easy is the bonfires that light the way for Pere Noel. Hundreds of towering fires burn on the levees so the jolly gent, who travels by boat, can find his way along the Mississippi. Just as parish and civic groups compete in the Mardi Gras parade, at Christmas they create fantastic forms--including replicas of boats and plantation homes--out of logs stuffed with...
...studying nearly 300 families nationwide who watch TV less than six hours a week, Barbara Brock, a recreation-management professor at Eastern Washington University, concluded that most want to rediscover a gem called time. The Gurney family in Rhinebeck, N.Y., for instance, prefers woodland treks, charades and stories by candlelight. "It's really fun," says Franklin, 11, "because you're not glued...
Students attended six panel sessions in Harvard Hall and ended the day with a candlelight vigil to raise awareness about Palestinians killed in ongoing conflicts with Israel...
...plantation, and Madewood guests might easily imagine that they are members of an old-time Southern house party. All eight bedrooms boast fine canopied beds and spacious bathrooms. Guests may also stay in the three-bedroom Charlet House. At night everyone gathers around a huge dining table for a candlelight repast of gumbo or other Louisiana dishes. They may then move on to the formal parlor for coffee or gather on the veranda for a chat...
...rhetorical trope of liberals who are tired of being dismissed in a political culture that makes "moderation" the pre-eminent virtue. Ideological taxonomists will find the lineup of shadow convention speakers--from Jesse Jackson to Paul Wellstone--eerily predictable and not particularly transcendent. All that's missing is a candlelight vigil for the Scottsboro Boys...