Word: pilgrims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Benedictus' pilgrim is a bowlegged 22-year-old named Bernard Chanticleer who "lives by love but loves at random wherever his love will stick." He lives with his parents in a London suburb, and agrees to go to work as a shoe salesman in the big London store where his father is a department manager. His parents provide him with a bowler, a pinstripe, suit that conceals his bowlegs, nylon underwear that crackles when he walks, and a small "pied a terre" (or, foot in the grave) in Kensington. He learns the sales spiel handily enough ("A beautiful shoe...
...company of four muscular Quakers, he was taken for a brisk walk during which he was encouraged to admire the beauties of nature and enjoy the song of the lark.... He was not allowed any literature that might be considered inflammatory, he was given the Bible, Pilgrim's Progress and Uncle Tom's Cabin.... He was allowed no tobacco, no alcohol, and no red pepper. Cocoa he might have at any hour of the day or night, since the most eminent of his guardians were purveyors of that innocent beverage...
...PILGRIM AT SEA by Par Lagerkvist. 116 pages. Random House...
...Land, the Patriarch suggested that the trip be turned into a "summit conference" of the world's Christian leaders. The Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity responded by sending Father Pierre Duprey to Istanbul with a letter for Athenagoras explaining that Paul was going as a pilgrim to pray at Christian shrines, but also expressing the Pope's willingness to meet the Patriarch and establish a friendship...
...repair the damaged Alliance, Johnson hopes to hold bilateral talks in Washington next year with Erhard, Douglas-Home and De Gaulle. But the French are already beginning to hint that since De Gaulle was just in the U.S., Johnson ought to visit Paris-presumably as a pilgrim to the Delphic shrine...