Word: communion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among the other rituals: a "purification" by holy water and a "communion" of bread and wine. Finally the couple fastened blue ribbons around each other's heads-his with a gold medallion representing the sun, hers with a silver crescent symbolizing the moon-and jumped over a broomstick. With that, John Beasley, 26, and his wife Donna, 22, two chiropractors from Marietta, Ga., were declared man and wife...
...prose, however, pares even these occurences down to an underlying lyricism. Death and starvation become poetical. There is a tension between the events described and the manner in which they are told. In one particularly moving passage, Haviaras describes eating a sparrow, and reaches an almost mystical communion with it. He writes, "And then it was my mouth embracing the sparrow. I was warmer, my throat was warmer, as if I had taken in his voice, and had been singing with it for hours...
When Wade hunches over his banjo, he is a figure of rapturous communion, a man lost in a love affair with an instrument. The songs may be poignantly plaintive, boisterously celebratory or ironically funny. His fingers pluck the strings with steely precision or waft over them like a passing zephyr. Always there is the pulsing drive of his ever moving feet, percussively accenting the chords and the words...
Finally, he had kissed his mother and girlfriend goodbye, taken Communion and delivered to Episcopal Priest Thomas Feamster a cryptic epitaph: "Man is what he chooses to be. He chooses that for himself...
...hard to explain what's precious about life here," says Levonda McDaniel, 50, the association's secretary. 'I think it's something about the earth, a sort of communion with the Lord when you can go out there and plow your fields and produce half of what you eat. Most people here realize they're not really college-educated types, yet within themselves they are secure." An extreme sense of self-reliance, growing rarer by the day in urbanized America, and at the same time an odd reliance on each other against the outside world...