Word: loree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Have children forgotten how to entertain themselves? Last week British grownups got the lowdown from an exuberant piece of scholarship: the Oxford University Press's new Lore and Language of Schoolchildren* TV may seem to be taming the last of the world's savage tribes, report Authors lona and Peter Opie, but juvenile culture is indestructible...
...really enduring lore is the local jargon of dark doings-the terms for playing hooky, teasing, scrapping. The extraordinary thing, report the Opies, is the abiding loyalty of children to prattle that seems "more vastly entertaining to them than anything they learn from grownups." TV will never conquer the favorite jump-rope rhyme of little girls throughout much of the English-speaking world...
...full light of reason to play on a complex mystery of faith: whether a man or woman has displayed Christlike sanctity, including the performance of miracles. To this question, the church brings the meticulous accounting of a bank examiner, the ferreting instincts of a good detective, and the judicial lore of centuries of precedents. In practice, these are embodied in an initial diocesan investigation of claims to sainthood, followed by a formal examination before an appointed court of the Congregation of Rites in Rome. Even when the claims are upheld by the court, decades, years or centuries may elapse before...
From the day he took office, Pope John XXIII made clear that he was not going to change the warm, outgoing nature that had made him a beloved Patriarch of Venice. Last week one more story was added to the lore of the man who is already one of the best-loved Popes of modern times. He has given away his breviary-and to an Anglican. The recipient: Canon Donald Rea. vicar of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Eye, Suffolk, and chairman of the Anglican Confraternity of Unity, founded in 1926 "to restore communion with...
...Corny Shields talked on, no one was disappointed. Out poured the lore that could be proved by no science, nor learned from any textbook. Said...