Word: meatlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...called-are also alarmed at what they see as the casual abandonment of a culture that once seemed both rich and reassuring. They miss not only the Latin Mass and many familiar old hymns but many other pious practices that have been widely discarded since Vatican II: novenas, benediction, meatless Fridays, priests wearing cassocks and birettas, nuns wearing wimples. The old rituals and disciplines were visible symbols that Catholics were different from (and perhaps better than) other people. Many who resent the passing of traditional Catholic ways seem to feel that a comfortable certainty has vanished with the piety...
When he grew weak on the sparse and meatless monastery diet a month or so after his training began, he was told in a matter of fact way to go buy himself a restaurant meal now and then...
Some of the strongest opposition came from Chilean women, perhaps the most liberated in Latin America. As occasional meatless days became regular meatless weeks, they organized a "March of the Empty Pots" in 1971 to dramatize the rising cost and increasing shortages of food. The sound of spoons banging against empty pots became a symbolic klaxon of protest. The signal would suddenly begin in one quarter of Santiago and ripple all across the city, to the chagrin of the government. Two weeks ago, after Allende's supporters staged a massive rally in Plaza de la Constituci...
People were not buying as much meat in restaurants, some of which offered meatless menus. There were occasional unrepentant carnivores. At La Goulue, a new Manhattan restaurant where the chic meet to eat, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Ultra Violet and Candy Darling feasted on lamb chops one afternoon last week. But at a nearby table Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco observed the boycott by lunching on salad...
...Mass., several families are raising calves, sheep, pigs and chickens in their backyards; in Middlesex County, Mass., Agricultural Agent Ronald Athenas received 275 calls in a 24-hour period on his "hot line," which supplies gardening tips. On request, Seventh-day Adventists have recently mailed 7,000 booklets of meatless recipes to recent converts to vegetarianism. The Adventists have also sold 1,700 copies of their meatless cookbook ($2.95) at regional headquarters in Glendale, Calif...