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Opus Dei is not a kind of spiritual pick-me-up for casual Catholics. It features a small, committed membership (85,500 worldwide and a mere 3,000 in the U.S.), many of whom come from pious families and are prepared to embrace unpopular church teachings such as its birth-control ban. Members take part in a rigorous course of spiritual "formation" stressing church doctrine and contemplation plus Escrivá's philosophy of work and personal holiness. Opus' core is its "numeraries," the 20% who, despite remaining lay, pledge celibacy, live together in one of about 1,700 sex-segregated "centers...
...distinctively homespun sound. His rendition of mellow folk music is reminiscent of early Johnny Cash; his lyrics, like Nick Drake’s, are literate enough to be considered vaguely poetic on their own. However, Ritter has a voice so emotive that these lyrics can become incomprehensible to the casual listener. One of the more Cash-like songs is “Good Man,” a romantic celebration of music, love, and open spaces that just misses the familiarity of older country rock-n-roll with the addition of a spacey synthesizer. Just after “Good...
...often speak of “senioritis” as a kind of short-term infection that afflicts second-semester seniors with crippling laziness, or at least a casual disinterest in all things productive. But this age-specific illness is also often characterized by an increased predilection toward most things unexpected, not simply abandoning books for booze, but really finding unusual diversions and activities. Sometimes these two pursuits are combined into masterful social experiments: look at the Last Senior Standing competition, or the wine seminars held throughout the upperclassmen Houses in the spring...
Sporting more casual attire, the staffers nosh on ribs and biscuits, sipping sweet tea on the country house’s wraparound porch that overlooks the shaded creek below. The home’s current owner, a state mental health expert, snaps photos. The guests include local notables, including the civil rights era editor of the Montgomery Advertiser, Ray Jenkins...
...Calif. Z Restaurant Group co-owner and cookbook author Sally Sampson will oversee the daily operations of the Harvard Square location. “Z Square Cambridge will have a very similar feel to our California location,” Sampson said. “It will be a casual and very comfortable place to eat. Our food will be simple in its presentation yet full of complex flavors.” Two menu items that are currently most popular at Café Z are a vegetarian Moroccan stew at lunch time and a pork chop with a fruit...