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Djilas is too flinty a Montenegrin to offer much in the way of redemption for such suffering. Men die bravely for a cause that is elusive, not to say parochial. Still, they manage to wrest from the din of battle a selflessness that frees them, if only for moments, from their world of pain...
...equally commendable alternative exists for Americans: reorder your priorities and leave the din of urban existence. I trust that nature will at least tolerate her prodigal...
...representative of the Mindick Family Real Estate Interests in Boston's South End, and the representatives of the South End Tenants Council asked the Masachusetts Rabbinical Court of Justice, the Bet Din (House of Judgment) to adjudicate their disagreements, thinking this would be faster than civil litigation. The Ret Din agreed. The Jewish Advocate reported in its August 8, 1968 issue the August 5 signing of the final settlement: "It is the first time in U. S. history that a Rabbinical Court, normally concerned with interpretation of Jewish law, divorce cases, disputes between synagogues, religious functionaries, family counseling, has undertaken...
...people and country but now the news doesn't appear before page six in the papers and isn't even mentioned three or four days a week on the TV news. Mass indignation is rising against students rather than the government and about the only voices rising above the din are being articulated in bombs...
...depressed area of the Abruzzi Mountains because of the shrine of San Gabriele dell' Ad-dolorato, who is revered for his patience and submission to the will of superiors. On the saint's feast day, Feb, 21, the piazza in front of the shrine rings with the din of jukeboxes and shooting galleries and the cries of vendors selling rosaries and cold beer. Some 300,000 pilgrims yearly visit the shrine of St. Philomena in Mugnano del Cardinale, near Naples-even though Philomena was removed from the Catholic liturgical calendar...