Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...done around coffee or conference tables. "Half and 20 centavo" ($12.50) turns a copper coin into a quarter-while the customer clutches it. "Chop-chop cups," little changed from the days of ancient Egypt, produce spheres from plum to orange size. "Spooky, the spirit handkerchief makes a ghost wander around under an empty little blanket of silk...
...note of loss in a distressed letter to her diocesan newspaper, the Catholic Bulletin. "What was the first snowflake of compromise," she asked, that led to the "present avalanche of spiritual and religious concessions? Was it the first time we said 'Holy Spirit' instead of 'Holy Ghost'? The first hamburger we ate on Friday? The first time we stood to receive Holy Communion?" Believing in an ecclesiastical domino theory, Mrs. Wegner and many like her find the beginnings of Catholic troubles in even the minor changes wrought by Vatican II. Now, faced with a world...
...know enough about science or philosophy to assess Pirsig's originality from that perspective, but he did not write the book to be weighed in as a philosopher. The autobiographical threads that connect his chautauquas possess the urgency of self-revelation. An attempt to exorcize and thrash the "ghost of rationality" haunts Pirsig's story, and his personal quest animates the intellectual odyssey. The book's roots in common experience enable one to follow and savor its course...
...Third World committee has not, however, given up the ghost. Committee members say they intend to keep pushing for the Third World center, and the committee's statement asked Bok to meet with committee representatives for further discussion...
...most preposterous little touches slip by almost unnoticed--the Gilbert & Sullivan Players' excellent production gives them just the right sense of serene, oblivious seriousness--like the hint of a flute obligato at the first entrance of an almost entirely irrelevant character called Mad Margaret, or the "Alas, poor ghost" with which the hero, for no reason in particular, greets his spectral uncle...