Word: piousness
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...movie begins and ends in a pious condemnation of street life from a traditional, middle-class, Midwestern, Protestant perspective--a perspective which seems as foreign to Schrader as California is to Scott's bewildered father. Schrader's prototypes of middle class life, Grand Rapids, is nothing but a collection of hokey cliches. In the first five minutes, we see sledding kids, skating kids, kids watching TV, kids delivering the newspaper, daddies shoveling the sidewalk, mommy driving the car. Then comes religion--the snowy church, icons on the wall, grace before dinner, and discussions of sin among the men. The images...
...Trujillo and the top Vatican planner for CELAM, Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio, began advance work to avoid Me-dellin-type surprises. The theme would be "evangelization," hardly a radical buzzword, and the site would be Puebla, the most traditional and pious city in Mexico. There would be fewer advisers, and they would be more conservative. Limitations would be placed on the participation of members of religious orders, who are often more militant than diocesan priests...
When politics seems to have no rhyme or reason, George Ball, former Under Secretary of State, and recently special consultant to the National Security Council, tries his hand at poetry. Sample lyrics from Pious Thoughts for the Christmas Season, a collection of eight poems sent to family and friends...
...pagan celebrations, which had gone on for millenniums, continued for centuries after the birth of Christ. It was to steer the energies of the celebrants into more pious channels-so says Francis X. Weiser, S.J., in The Christmas Book that the church in the 4th century picked, as Christmas Day, exactly the date that signaled the end of the Roman Saturnalia. The origin of the celebrations at least raises the question of which came first, seasonal malaise or the celebrations? Could it be that the rituals cure far more gloom than they precipitate? Surely such issues should not be abdicated...
...That would require a change in the contract between Harvard Corporation and the Engelhard Foundation. But Allison's support of the desire of the majority of the student body would probably have a powerful effect on the Corporation, which is not even considering the issue. As it is, his pious support of South African freedom does not carry much weight...