Word: christianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...food here is pretty good, to be quite honest," said Christian S. Peccei '99 of Cabot House. "I'm from England and the food in universities there is pretty awful...
...early Christmas morning, as good Christian girls and boys across the land were tiptoeing down staircases, discovering presents nestled under decorated trees, we were tearing up highway five. The roads were as empty as expected, but when we arrived at the park, it was surprisingly busy. Walking down Main Street U.S.A., one felt transported to a small town of America's past, only this one was much, much more crowded. "Disneyland, Population 300,000,000" a suspicious sign read. Was this a ballpark guess of how many people squeeze inside the park each day? Or a cryptic suggestion...
...shrieking tantrums by young girls. Luckily, the prospect of a very un-Disney riot was averted when a fresh Cinderella, greeted with wild applause, was whisked in to satiate the growing crowd's appetite. If it's this swamped on one of the most important days of the Christian calendar and consequently a day when most Americans are at home celebrating with their families, I thought, it's a good thing we showed up today...
From what I've observed, most Christians don't see most Christmas decorations as being "Christian." Many speak of a holiday season as if it were something that could be separated from the holiday because, in their view, it can be. In short, they refuse to acknowledge that they have a shared culture, a shared past and a shared heritage...
DIED. LAURENS VAN DER POST, 90, South African-born conservationist acclaimed for his books on Africa; in London. Best-selling author of The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), he was Prince Charles' guide to alternative life-styles and non-Christian religions...