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...good times during and after rehearsals. Despite these tendencies, administrative curbs, and financial troubles, the Sodality is still maintaining its tradition of music and enjoyment, celebrating its 150th birthday with a concert this Friday. In their first century and a half, the followers of the Nine Muses who dwell on Mt. Pieria have managed to found the Harvard Glee Club, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, and the annual Concert Series...
...turned full circle: the people of Gilead. "grown fat on the oil and milk of the land," are not only a fragment of a disunited Israel but have become easygoing polytheists. Yahweh is no longer the fire-god of Sinai; he is merely one of many gods that dwell in the hills. When Gilead's warriors capture maidens in battle, they no longer sacrifice them to Yahweh; they marry them instead and adopt their alien gods. Even Gilead, the great judge, takes a heathen concubine to his bed and loves their son Jephta* more than his legitimate children...
...family called in Father William McLeod of nearby St. William the Abbot Church, he sprinkled holy water in each of the Herrmanns' six rooms. "O heavenly Father, Almighty God," he prayed, "we humbly beseech thee to bless and sanctify this house . . . and may the angels of thy light dwell within the walls...
More for Peanuts. "In such a contest we have abundant ammunition. We do not need to bring up the military catastrophe of Pearl Harbor nor the scientific catastrophe of losing our atomic secrets. Nor do we need to dwell on policies that led to the Red invasion of Korea, nor the plight of our defenses when the invasion began, nor the handcuffs put upon our conduct of that war. We need not even refer to the tragic loss of China, nor the surrender of positions of freedom throughout the world. We can also ignore at the moment the wasteful...
...same rule fed his fortune as he drained the city's malaria-breeding lowlands and on them built whole new developments such as Prati, where Rome's wealthy now dwell. It fortified him through the galling years when he repaired and built streets in Rome, ports in Sicily and roads of African conquest at Mussolini's whim. One day Mussolini called him to his Palazzo Venezia, said: "I can't see the Colosseum from my window." Replied Vaselli: "There's a hill in the way. Give me an order and I'll remove...