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Finnegans Wake. Relations between the quick and the dead have been conditioned by a variety of practical factors. The custom of sitting up with the deceased before burial-the wake-derived partly from the difficulty of determining whether a person was really dead. Metal coffins coincided with the rise of medical study in the late 18th century, when body-snatching was a profitable business. And those who had been great in life-kings, popes, heroes and commanders-have long been laid "in state" for public homage...
Concerning the term "monk barbecue show," Viet Nam is a strange country where people often commit spectacular suicides before the gates of people whom they wish to curse. I find that custom barbaric. My aim was to try to stop the spreading of bad examples by ridiculing what I considered grotesque customs. I am stunned to see my well-intended purpose maliciously distorted by ill-intended elements who use my words to fit a false, ugly, obsolete and well-organized anti-Catholic propaganda which tries to present the Vietnamese people as an innocent Buddhist majority under a cruel dictatorship...
Born. To Hassan II, 34, strong-willed King of Morocco, and Lalla Latifa, 19, Hassan's only "royal spouse" (though not his queen, since Moslem custom bars women from such status): their second child, first son and heir to the troubled throne; in Rabat, Morocco. Name: Sidi Mohammed, after Hassan's father, the late Mohammed...
...every foreign strand that it touched, the receding tide has left a church uniquely English, yet catholic enough to survive in any climate. It is grand and symbolic that as a typical consequence, there should be in the South Pacific a bishop who follows the ancient Church of England custom by styling himself Norman New Zealand. Empire is gone; the church remains...
...edition of the pamphlet, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, departing from what had been the custom, included illustrations showing Negro parents and babies. Several Southern Congressmen quickly canceled orders for the integrated edition. Explained Georgia's Representative John W. Davis: "I'm just afraid that in view of the current state of high feelings it might rub a few nerves the wrong...