Word: gatherings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this is Friday, a special day. Children, young people, older adults set about their tasks with double vigor, scrubbing floors, changing linen, preparing food to take them through the next day. The recreation hall, a converted red barn, becomes a synagogue. There, at 7 in the evening, they gather: the girls in white dresses, the boys in white trousers and skullcaps. Two silver menorahs burn brightly on a velvet-covered table. A blue "eternal light" flickers above the wooden cabinet containing the Torah. The cantor, a bearded young man, sings the prayers, and the congregation responds in Hebrew...
...have been major forces in it ever since. But there are sizable numbers elsewhere. On Trinity Sunday last week, 450 Catholic Pentecostals held a "Day of Renewal" at St. Theresa Catholic Church in San Diego; this weekend 3,000 Catholic Pentecostals from all over the country are expected to gather at Notre Dame for their annual national conference...
Over the loudspeaker in the Pan American terminal at New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport comes word that Flight 92 is now ready to board passengers. Obediently, the ticket holders gather their flight bags and file through the appropriate gate. Instead of finding themselves aboard an airplane, however, the bewildered travelers discover that they have entered what seems to be another waiting lounge, complete with upholstered blue seats and the soothing strains of recorded music. What ever happened to Flight 92 and faraway places? The doors finally close, and up front a dashingly costumed pilot checks...
There will also be a petition at the table, demanding equal admissions at Harvard and also calling upon President designate Derek C. Bok and the Corporation to implement that goal. The women hope to gather several hundred signatures on the petition. They plan to distribute a leaflet to people attending Commencement, which will explain why the students and their supporters are demonstrating...
...they nervously guide bewildered parents through the narrow and overcrowded streets. And as for the College's few extant radicals, one said, "It's an opportunity for the University to get the alumni drunk so they can hold them upside down on their way out the door while they gather up all the change that falls out of those rich pigs' pockets...