Word: pious
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...beard as you park your Honda in front of the Orpheum. Random leaves, pages from the Good Book of Earthly and Other-Earthly bounty, are strewn about you as you assume your place at the end of the autumnal queue. "Good day, fellow concert patron," you intone with pious conviction. "How many of these crisp, green bills need I fork over to gain entrance to this Mighty Fortress...
...could have been, scarcely a decade ago, a pious Roman Catholic Mass, just the sort of loyal demonstration to gladden the heart of a Pope distressed by the faithlessness of the modern world. The worshipers had come early to the auditorium in the northern French city of Lille; while a choir chanted medieval Latin hymns, the congregation quickly filled 5,700 seats and spilled out into the aisles. Then the celebrant of the Mass entered, a pink-cheeked, white-haired priest who moved solemnly up the aisle behind a quartet of acolytes bearing lighted candles...
...words from the altar were anything but pious or loyal. Instead, the priest, Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, 70, coolly denounced the Vatican for having entered an "adulterous marriage" with "revolution and subversion." As a result, charged the prelate, "The rite of Mass today is a bastard rite. The sacraments today are bastard sacraments. We want to have prayers like our ancestors. We want to keep the Catholic faith." After an hour of such remonstrations, Lefebvre began the Mass in Latin, according to the four-century-old Tridentine rite, now superseded and banned by Rome...
Anneliese Michel seemed to build her life around an old-fashioned kind of Roman Catholic devotion. In her dormitory room at West Germany's University of Würzburg, the pretty, pious young education student covered her walls with pictures of saints, kept a holy-water font near the door, regularly prayed the Rosary. Timid and intense, she seemed somehow afraid of life; even in her thesis, which she finished this spring, she focused on the phenomenon of fear. Then, one month later, Anneliese died at home in Klingenberg at the age of 23, wasted to skin and bones...
...winter galvanized many Japanese into feeling that wrongdoing in Japan could not simply be ignored. Then Takeo Miki, Tanaka's successor as Premier, promised to "get to the bottom of the affair." Though the pledge was dismissed by many in the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.) as "pious hogwash," Miki's determination was genuine. In part, this was because Miki could only enhance his image as the "Mr. Clean" of Japanese politics by giving free reign to the Lockheed prosecutors, while his longtime L.D.P. opponent Tanaka could only be hurt. But Miki also recognized that the Japanese...