Word: meatlessness
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President Bok said yesterday he has asked his staff to research the possibility of meatless days at Harvard, in response to a proposal made by Dr. Jean Mayer, professor of Nutrition...
...rent increase from $84 to $92 on Seidman's one-room apartment in sunny but seedy East Hollywood almost totally negated the latest increase in his $230-a-month Social Security check. Climbing costs have purged cottage cheese from his meatless diet (he suffers from a cardiovascular disorder and subsists on nuts, grains, fruits and beans). Despite Medicare, Seidman has had to dip into his savings to cover medical bills. He recently paid $700 for dental work and $140 for a pair of special orthopedic shoes, and fears that he will have to make another withdrawal to cover some...
...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...