Word: comely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once again, the chief role goes, not to the believers, but to these same roaring youths. In twos and threes they burst into the yard, hurrying, yet not knowing where to look, which side to make for, where the procession will come from. They light their crimson Easter candles, and with the candles-with those candles they light their cigarettes, that's what they do with them...
...must be many faces in the picture, primitive, cheeky faces, with their ruble's worth of self-assurance and five kopecks' worth of understanding-though some are trusting, simple-mouthed) crowd around and watch a performance that no one can buy tickets to see. Following the lantern come two banner bearers. They, too, as though afraid, huddle together...
...behind them, in five rows of twos, come ten women with thick, burning candles in their hands. They too must all be in the picture. The women are elderly, with strong, dedicated faces, ready to die should the tigers be loosed. Only two are young-as young as the girls who crowd with the boys-but how innocent their faces and how full of light! Ten women sing and walk in serried ranks. They are as triumphant as though all around them were people crossing themselves, praying, repenting, bowing to the ground. These women do not smell the cigarette smoke...
Following the women come priests and deacons in pale chasubles-about eight of them. But how huddled together they are, crowding together, getting in each other's way, so that there is scarcely room to swing a censer. Yet here, if he had not been dissuaded, the Patriarch of all the Russias could have celebrated the liturgy and walked in the procession...
...Washington from Santiago, contained four face-saving provisos for the sovereignty-conscious Peruvian junta. Velasco would receive a U.S. emissary, but that representative must be 1) a high-level personage, 2) President Nixon's special representative, 3) armed with discretionary powers to negotiate broadly, and 4) willing to come to Lima. The Administration has been increasingly concerned over its disintegrating hemispheric relations; at his press conference two weeks ago, President Nixon ruefully admitted that imposing the Hickenlooper Amendment would have an anti-American domino effect all over South America. Therefore the President speedily agreed to all four considerations...