Word: owings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protect their country, had lost face. Many shrines had to rent out space to businesses-some even rented their grounds to carnival operators who staged strip shows. Said one embittered priest in Nagoya of postwar Shintoists: "After a ceremony, they say, 'Hey priest, how much do I owe you?' In the old days the money would have been carefully wrapped in paper as a token of respect...
Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company store...
...owe my soul to the company store.' " Added a friend: maybe the song strikes home to Americans "because we all live on credit and owe our souls to some sort of company store...
Among readers who fancy vampires, succubi, werewolves and other monsters, a young (35) Californian named Ray Bradbury is regarded as the arrived monster-monger, fit replacement for August Derleth, eldritch statesman of the well-informed witchlover. Author Bradbury may owe even more to John Collier, another veteran djinn-and-bitters addict. Like Mary Wollstonecraft (Frankenstein) Shelley and Bram (Dracula) Stoker, these writers appeal to the middle or relatively uncorrugated brow, rather than the highbrow, who finds more than enough to bite his nails over in the Age of Anxiety without faking up a little more. The highbrow, in fact, whose...
...from all spiritual ministrations, he merely suspended services at the mission in Jesuits Bend and reduced services at two others at nearby Belle Chasse and Myrtle Grove. In a letter addressed to the congregations, the archbishop said that the incident violated "the obligations of reverence and devotion which Catholics owe to every priest...