Word: pilgrimate
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...seemed-almost-as if nothing had ever happened. There, in his familiar role as pilgrim to the faithful, was Pope John Paul II. The car moving slowly, the crowd pressing in, the hands stretching to touch-it was the scene that had marked, more than any other, the joy of his papacy. But that same scene now also calls up memories of the assassination attempt nine months ago. Last week the Pope was trying to complete the healing of those wounds by turning again to minister to his worldwide flock...
...title-was fathered by the cinematic god himself. "At that time he was our savior," she says. "He was the only one who understood us." The crumbling movie set has become a holy shrine to her, and from every visit she proudly bears back a fragment, like a pilgrim with a relic of the true cross...
Hatfields and McCoys are still here, hundreds of them, Hatfields clustered around West Virginia towns like Belfry and Double Camp, McCoys settled in Pilgrim and Jamboree in Kentucky. Many still hunt (raccoons, squirrels) and gather (chestnuts, huckleberries), but they also watch cable TV and vacation in New Jersey. The feud is unequivocally over. All is forgiven. Forgotten? Not just yet. "Why, we're plain old Hatfields and McCoys," says one of the latter in a shrugging, boiler-plate disclaimer, "good friends and neighbors . . ." Yet after a reminiscence has meandered a while, and the truce reaffirmed again, the rote kindliness...
Sukkoth, the planners decided, is the ideal festival for promoting Jewish-Christian reconciliation. It is the only one of three obligatory Jewish pilgrim festivals in the Bible that was not supplanted in Christianity (Passover became Easter, and the Feast of Weeks became Pentecost Sunday). The seven-day festival stressed repentance for Christendom's past sins against Jews. Explained the program: "Though we may not be accountable personally for the historic victimization of the Jews or the resultant dilemma in the Jewish perception of Christianity, we must still bear the guilt for atrocities committed against God's Chosen People...
...Boston Edison Co. in September abandoned plans for its Pilgrim II plant in Plymouth, Mass. When first proposed in 1972, the plant was supposed to cost $402 million and begin producing electricity in 1979; by last month the cost was estimated at $4 billion and start-up projected...