Word: pentecostal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past 34 years, he has celebrated Pentecost Sunday by leading a small group of family and friends on a climb up the Rock of Solutré, a steep and scenic ascent near the medieval Abbey of Cluny in east central France. The locale has a special meaning for him. It was there that his wife's family sheltered members of the Resistance during the German Occupation. After the war, the annual Solutré pilgrimage became a tradition with François Mitterrand, an occasion to reunite with relatives and old war friends...
...private chat about politics and policy would follow. It was a privilege to accept, and they did, though a few of the more orthodox Cabinet members grumbled that the appointed hour was dangerously close to the beginning, at sundown, of a major Jewish celebration: Shavuot, the Feast of Pentecost...
...supreme example of God's refusal to accept the limits of the possible." Through love, the clown, like Jesus, can transform the ordinary into the sacred. At the Last Supper, ordinary bread and cheap table wine became eternal symbols of Jesus' love and sacrifice. At Pentecost, a group of illiterate fishermen were turned into inspired preachers who could speak to every man present in his own language. "Isn't that Christ's message," asks Shaffer, "that even ordinary people can become divine through his love...
Another case came up; this time the defendant entered from the jail entrance. The arresting officer accused the Black defendant of having some altercation with a store owner and "He had a prescription bottle strapped to his leg filled with pentecost or something like that." The prosecution asked him whether the defendant said anything upon his arrest, and the officer said, "Yeah, he said something about his mother had just died." A look at the defendant revealed a man wearing a grieved face, shaking his head...