Word: pilgrimate
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...hidden . . . and is found only after the most exhaustive efforts." The "general dance" which provides the framework of the central movement of the Canata draws into its whirl the Sacred History, the Lyke-Wake Dirge, the plaints of innocents and of sinners, and shapes a unified but very personal pilgrim's progress. To wrest objective experience from it, a listener must begin with a faith in this unity and yet with the expectation that it will be justified only eventually, by increasing familiarity with the work...
Burrell is known primarily for his work during World War II, when he was Drama Director of the B.B.C. for three years where he produced such radio broadcasts as Don Quixote and The Pilgrim's Progress. He then became co-director of the Old Vic, virtually England's national theater, with Ralph Richardson and Laurence Olivier. While there he directed many successful classical plays...
...Illinois State Library in Springfield launched a campaign "to make it impossible for our children to obtain smut." Among the first volumes marked with the words "This book is for adult readers": John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, some of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales. Needed for a youngster who wants to get any of them: a librarian's decision...
...pilgrims journey to the Grotto where Christ was born, and then off to Christmas dinners with families and friends whom they see only once every year. An official of the Bank Leumi Lisrael at Mandelbaum Gate just this once legally exchanges Jordanian dinars for Israeli lirot. The pilgrim, returning 52 hours later, is allowed to carry into Israel Jordan food, which is ordinarily' confiscated. Then the gate clangs shut, and the passageway once more becomes a barrier...
...Augusta airport David, 5½, emerged, waving a tall black cardboard hat. "He's a Pilgrim," explained grandmother Mamie Eisenhower. In an hour Ike was on the first tee in a golf foursome. Playing 18 holes, he was off his usual game (middle 80s), and shooting in the 90s. Then the President settled down in "the Eisenhower Cabin," as the Augusta National Golf Club officially calls the $75,000, seven-room house it built for Ike. The "cabin," styled with a white-columned front porch and a steep slate roof with dormer windows, perches on a ridge...