Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion this year for knot-tying festivities, an astonishing $22,000 per couple, six times the price of the average U.S. ceremony. Posters in Tokyo subways, featuring dainty brides and dapper grooms, offer such cut-rate packages as the "Shining Love" ceremony ($2,500), performed in a small chapel at one of Tokyo's luxe hotels. At the top of the line, however, was the recent marriage of Chiyonofuji, a Grand Champion sumo wrestler. Price: $580,000. His bride's three ceremonial kimonos alone cost $370,000. One minor craze in the current Nipponese nuptial season...
...jeans, beards and long hair. Thirteen years ago this month at the antiwar March Against Death, the demonstrators invented a perfect piece of moral theater by reciting, one at a time, the names of 40,000 Americans who had been killed up to then. Last Wednesday morning, in a chapel at Washington's National Cathedral, the bleak recitation began again, and it seemed all the more powerful. There was now a final tally; most of the 230 readers had friends or kin among the dead, and a complicated sadness had replaced the agitprop bitterness of November 1969. David DeChant...
...minutes, from Burd to Burris, Ronald and Nancy Reagan sat in the chapel. To the dismay of some veterans, it was the President's only participation in the week's salute, and on his way out of the chapel, he could not resist putting an ideological point on the proceedings: "We are beginning to appreciate that they were fighting for a just cause...
Once upon a time, more than a hundred years ago, a small group of Harvard men decided that they hated going to church. Not only did the University require them to rest on the seventh day, but it also made attendance at regular morning chapel compulsory. In protest, they started a magazine, called The Collegian, in which they vented their frustrations in verse and satire. Here they wrote imaginary dialogues condemning compulsory religion; here they lampooned a pompous Latin professor in dactylic hexameter; here they managed to offend the Harvard faculty so thoroughly that then-president Thomas Hill called...
...slain youth's graveside they showed they were also not ready to give in. As Wlosik's wooden coffin was carried from the cemetery chapel, a couple unfurled the union's banner, symbolically splattered with red. Then mourners who had crammed between the gravestones raised their hands in victory signs. Workers, ranked shoulder to shoulder on the roof of a nearby building, picked up the salute, and even onlookers standing on a slag heap a quarter of a mile away joined in the silent gesture of protest. Said one mourner bitterly: "The only thing that is left...