Word: greet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that everyone's comfortable. Harvard can move out into the street and greet the world. But what about that Hare Krishna in the Square who has selected Harvard as his personal, proselytizing mission? Miss Manners informs us that Harvard can boldly go about the business of the day without concern for the feelings of the street zealot or the wrath of the Almighty...
...streets and you have a piece of the thing. Add parade drums to that and you have a little more. The Mardi Gras Indians incorporated all this rhythmically. On Mardi Gras day the Indians would wear costumes-a lot of feathers-and come out in the morning to greet the sunrise and all move toward the center of the city. As they went, they'd challenge one another to see whose dancers were the best dressed and whose music was best. Then they'd all converge in this one area. That's the peak...
Thus when John Paul finally stepped from the Alitalia DC-10 jetliner Galileo Galilei last Friday at Buenos Aires' Ezeiza Airport and kissed the ground of Argentina, he faced a delicate diplomatic task. There to greet him, amid a thick crowd of government and church dignitaries, was President Leopoldo Fortunate Galtieri, uniformed but hatless, reverently kneeling to kiss the Pontiffs ring. Later, while the Pope spoke, Galtieri gallantly held an umbrella over him, but the presence of the man who had ordered the invasion of the Falklands did not deter John Paul from hammering yet again at the message...
...Pope's message: "I love my country. Our cause is just. But I love God more than the Malvinas." The feeling was mirrored in less religious reactions: crowds that gathered outside the offices of the daily La Nación to read the latest war news did not greet last week's announcements of British losses with the jubilation of the early weeks of the conflict...
Buoyed by such acclaim, back in Rome a tired John Paul and his harried entourage barely had enough time to unpack, greet the visiting President Reagan, sketch plans, repack and take off Friday for Argentina. That journey of 7,000 miles carries no ecumenical agenda whatsoever; the population is 92% Catholic, compared with Britain's 13%. But while the basic purpose is pastoral, even more than in Britain the political landscape is dotted with opportunities for trouble. "The Pope's visit could weigh heavily in peace negotiations," La Prensa, the leading daily in Buenos Aires, warned last week...