Word: feasting
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...Vietnamese festival of Tet combines the qualities of Christmas and the end of Ramadan, the Hindu feast of lights and the pagan rites of spring. To welcome the Lunar New Year, Vietnamese housewives last week prepared mounds of hanh chung - rice cakes covered with a stew of pork fat, pickled onions and rancid fish sauce. Fathers wrapped money in red paper for the children and raised the cay neu, a 30-ft. bamboo pole topped with offerings of betel nuts to propitiate the spirits. Before Tet begins, the good spirits of forest and stream, garden and hearth, head...
...first White House dinner of the 1967 social season was an old-fashioned love feast, and the hyperbole was as calorie-laden as the chocolate souffle. Noting that his three guests of honor had "each suffered the venomous abuse that often attends public life," Lyndon Johnson defended them as "adventurers, pioneers and statesmen who have blazed the trail of human dignity." Replying in kind, Vice President Hubert Humphrey likened Johnson to Franklin Roosevelt, House Speaker John McCormack toasted him as "a man bigger than life," and Chief Justice Earl Warren psalmed the joys of fellowship. "Behold," proclaimed Republican Warren...
...fulfilled in any one year. I've told a number of my friends, don't look upon the Great Society as if it is a smorgasbord, where you have to come and fill yourself to a point where you are literally ill at the first feast. There will still be plenty if you continue to take it in reasonable amounts year after year, rather than try to do it all at once. In other words, if we pace ourselves, if we're not too greedy, if we're not too overly anxious, I think...
...million Coptic Christians of Ethiopia, one of the spiritual high points of the year is the feast...
...addition to Sunday, Saturday is observed as the Sabbath. Male and female children are circumcised, and the Mosaic dietary laws are observed. The Ethiopians uniquely celebrate a feast in honor of Pontius Pilate, believing that he ultimately repented of his role in Jesus' passion and death. Western scholars have trouble establishing precisely what the church believes, since there is no defined body of doctrine...