Word: lent
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Yesterday, on Ash Wednesday, the Christian practice of Lent began: forty days of preparation for Resurrection—the zenith of faith. While in church, I witnessed an eclectic parade of coordinated bodies in procession toward the altar, where the priest marked each person’s forehead with a cross of ashes. By acknowledging every human’s origin and end in ashes and dust, we are moved toward more than a month of fasting and spiritual growth. In the spirit of ecumenism, similar practices are common to different religions and ways of life: Islamic Ramadan, Jewish...
...what is the point of fasting in our modern lives? Giving up food is a kind of outdated practice: we do it every day for our ethos or, much more realistically, our bodies. Complying with social standards, fasting is a year-round norm rather than a Lent exception. Vegetarian, vegan, low-fat, non-fat, low-carb, zero trans-fats… you name it, Whole Foods has it. In a world with staggering numbers of anorexics and bulimics, it would be senseless to argue that such often-paranoid food obsessions clear our minds in the same way they...
...other words, it wasn't just about the beer. Early on, for example, Hindy, a former newspaper reporter, called legendary designer Milton Glaser (best known for his I ? NY logo) every day for weeks to persuade him to create their logo. Glaser's name lent them some instant cool, and that distinctive B is now a familiar New York City signpost. When distributors balked at selling tiny lots of their beer, Hindy and Potter drove the trucks themselves and found salesmen who would patiently teach bar managers and convenience-store owners about specialty beer. They even started distributing rival...
Harvard has lent a helping hand to the city’s initiative since the project’s inception, according to Dan Moriarty, Harvard University’s chief information officer...
...that not even the booming chorus of All You Need Is Love from the '60s British art show downstairs can shatter. Displayed along glass cabinets usually reserved for sacred scroll paintings are mere pots of wood-fired clay. But through the alchemy of her kiln, Gwyn Hanssen Pigott has lent these objects a heavenly aura. Before your eyes, her luminous glazes seem to fade to white; porcelain lips quiver. When two Buddhist monks enter the room, they are drawn to the pieces like moths to a flame, which is hardly surprising. If Tasmania's Les Blakebrough is the father...