Word: processional
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Modern American culture was dawning too. Walt Whitman and Nathaniel Hawthorne had started work on Leaves of Grass and The Scarlet Letter, respectively, and Herman Melville was preparing to write Moby Dick. Henry David Thoreau, laying the groundwork for environmentalism, was altogether disgusted by the new Zeitgeist and gimcracks. "I...
Filled to capacity, Sanders Theatre was the place to be on Saturday afternoon for much of the Harvard community. The 22nd installment of “Cultural Rhythms,” an annual showcase celebrating Harvard’s rich cultural and ethnic diversity, brought a series of delightful music...
Asked about his worst day at work, and Mohammed quietly recalls an afternoon in August of 2005. A procession of Shi'ite pilgrims were massed on the Aimma Bridge in northern Baghdad, making their way to a golden-domed shrine for holiday celebrations. Suddenly the crowd grew panicky - someone had...
(2 of 15) response. The violence settles into inevitabilities that seem tribal, and reach into history. In any case, this winter and beyond, as the miserable rains passed and a sweet spring came, with the almond and apricot trees in blossom, the Arabs in the occupied territories of the West...
The E.U. wants Turkey to abolish that law, Article 301, which is used by nationalist prosecutors and lawyers to charge writers and journalists with "insulting Turkishness." At Dink's funeral today, many in the procession carried posters that read "301 is the real killer." "His murder has started some soul...