Word: feast
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...Poles who jammed into St. John's Cathedral in downtown Warsaw last week had come to celebrate the feast of the Epiphany. What they witnessed, along with the Mass, was one of the most courageous displays of free speech since martial law was declared on Dec. 13. Archbishop Jozef Glemp, the spiritual leader of Poland's 33 million Roman Catholics, mounted the carved oak pulpit to attack the excesses of General Wojciech Jaruzelski's military regime...
...beginning, Charles' enchantment with Sebastian and the Marchmains' way of life is infectious, and the first several hours of Brideshead are a glorious feast-even better, no doubt, than those served up in Sebastian's rooms at Christ Church college. The acting is scrupulous. Gielgud's scenes with Irons in the Ryder dining room in London are small comic masterpieces of timing and nuance. Olivier's grand scenes come at the end, when Lord Marchmain comes home to die at Brideshead...
...only to retain pagan forms, it had a difficult time restraining the pagan spirit. Despite clerical protests and papal anathemas, Christmas in the early days preserved many of the worst orgies, debaucheries and indecencies of the Bacchanalia and Saturnalia. The clergy itself was whirled into the vortex, instituting a Feast of Fools so that "the folly which is natural to and born with us might exhale . . . once a year...
Candlelight flickers softly in the room, dancing on the tablecloth and glinting on the goblets' crystal stems. The elegant table, laid for eight, is set for a lavish gourmet feast, and the guests, clad in evening gowns and tailored suits, talk of Herodotus and scientific ethics over white wine, blanched vegetables and cheddar cheese fondue. In the seat of honor, Emily Vermeule, professor of Fine Arts, discusses her excavations in Cyprus during the Turkish invasion. It is Jim Mitchell's dream come true...
...shower and a quick change of clothing after capturing the Ivy League Championship Saturday night in Princeton, the women's soccer team celebrated in fine fashion. The squad wasted no time attacking some post-victory bubbly, courtesy of KELLY LANDRY's parents during the bus ride to their victory feast--a splended turkey dinner at CAT FERRANTE's house in nearby Kingston. Despite the sparse resources on the road trip, a few of the players refused to allow Halloween to pass without dressing up in costume. Reserve goalie BARB MAHON was particularly creative, decorating her black goalie uniform with some...