Word: feast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot be judged; it cannot be solved. It can only be experienced. But Rattigan, alas, is no Chekhov. As time runs out, he quite shamelessly gives the public what it wants, and begs the vital questions at the heart of the drama: Why do men sit down to the feast of life at separate tables? What is the meaning of the fatal separateness of human lives? And yet, the film will probably be received by millions of moviegoers as an unusually thoughtful and mature examination of these questions...
...Tithe That Binds. In Kennett Square, Pa., the Kennett News and Advertiser reported the monthly song feast at a local church, noted that "a liberal offering was lifted by Mrs. Clifford Lee and Rev. R. B. Hardin...
...Birthday," Celebrator Garner sliced into a handsome cake, quavered a brief thank-you speech. "I love everybody." he concluded. "I've never had any hatred in my heart." Then, amid cheers, the old man shuffled off for his afternoon nap while the boys lined up for the backyard feast...
...feast day commemorating the consecration of Roman Catholicism's mother church,*the slender Jesuit, delivering his maiden sermon to worshipers (mostly English-speaking) at Rome's Church of San Silvestro in Capite, had a text from St. Matthew ("Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my church") and a theme that father might well approve: the need for unity among Christians. The preacher: the Rev. Avery Dulles, S.J., 39, second son of Presbyterian John Foster Dulles...
...Designated a coronation date five days earlier than had been anticipated. Popes are traditionally crowned on a Sunday, but the Pope selected Tuesday, Nov. 4, instead of the following Sunday, because it is the feast day of St. Charles Borromeo, to whom the Pope is especially devoted...