Word: occasionals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Irish will probably go on cursing the clergy anyway, or defending them against curses, long after the occasion has passed. Anticlericalism is too good and old a sport to abandon entirely, and the most devout indulge in it the most gleefully. The Irish bishops ("the 26 Popes") have drawn...
Arkansas celebrates its 150th anniversary as a U.S. territory this year, and Lily Peter, a wealthy, plantation-owning spinster, decided that a musical tribute would be just the thing to mark the occasion. Trouble is, she conceded, "we are as far removed from the great world of music as if...
Dorms are discouraging places for boys to visit. They have to be stared at by 100 girls to get to see one. All the apparatus of bells, pink slips, tags, and signing in for parietals makes it a Special Occasion every time a boy comes, when everyone would be happier...
Like a sort of unheroic Hemingway, Fielding has created a charmed circle and a cult. It involves rituals about food, drink and living in which everything has to be just so. It divides the world into good guys and bad?or, as Fielding has it, "givers" and "takers." His friends...
Seeking to commemorate the occasion, Westminster began looking for a memorial in 1961. The college decided that nothing could be more appropriate than a church designed by Sir Christopher Wren. As surveyor to King Charles II, Wren had rebuilt London after the Great Fire of 1666, creating out of its...