Word: dens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were weighing as heavily on the people as on the President. In the presidential case, momentarily at least, the crisis in Viet Nam provoked a feeling that maybe he'd be happier somewhere else. Like Texas. Gesturing at an oil painting of blooming bluebonnets that hangs in the den adjoining his oval office, the President said almost wistfully to a visitor early in the week: "There's where I'd really like to be right...
After having stolen 24 years of Den-nison's life, New York obeyed the letter of the law on his release...
...even this last barrier is now being experimentally, and rather furtively, lowered. Last month Dr. Albert van den Heuvel of the World Council of Churches' Youth Department told a Chicago audience that priests and ministers impatient at the slow pace of organized ecumenical progress are celebrating the Eucharist together and giving each other Communion. As many as 6,000 dedicated Catholic and Protestant laymen reportedly belong to ecumenical study groups in The Netherlands that periodically celebrate interfaith Communions; either a minister or a priest will preside, and the consecrated elements are given to all members present. And though probably...
...while Reformed churches say that he is spiritually present in the consecrated elements. The advocates of interCommunion argue that since the "church" embraces all those who follow Christ, the sacrament is not the property of a single tradition, and is thus appropriate for Christians working or praying together. Van den Heuvel points out that most cases of interCommunion have taken place in situations of "secular ecumenicity," where Christians are working together to relate the church to social problems, and "there is nothing more normal than to express that unity in liturgical form...
...Play of Daniel is a twelfth century musical drama about the life of the prophet Daniel. With music, song, and narration it tells the story of the writing on the wall, the lion's den, and the fall of Belshazzar. The Lowell House Music Society's production at St. Paul's Catholic Church is replete with processionals, swinging censers, and echoing trumpets. Backed by the cavernous marble nave, the play is infused with a sense of the ancient and the divine. Although the beautiful voice and lovely, archaic music are enough to make the program a success, there are faults...