Word: rubbishing
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...haired Roman Catholic priests, a small band of antiwar demonstrators last month burst into the headquarters of local draft board 33 in Catonsville, Md. Telling the terrified women clerks on duty that they had come for the records, the invaders emptied the contents of four filing drawers into wire rubbish baskets. Then they carried them out the door and burned hem in a nearby parking lot, starting the blaze with napalm they had whipped up from a recipe in an Army manual. The Berrigan brothers- Daniel, 47 and Philip, 44- had struck again...
That there is plenty of petty rubbish onstage no one will deny, but the current abdication of audiences is indicative of a far subtler melody-they are rejecting the most intensive contact that can exist among human beings outside their private lives. As opposed to those who play it cool, the theater at its passionate best plays it nothing but hot. With molten fury it welds mind to mind, heart to heart, skin to skin, and soul to soul. Whenever the theater is weak, it is because man is denying man and shielding his feeblest self from the pain, power...
...told, Knussen's little boy has written 60 works for orchestra and a variety of instrumental combinations, and is just now finishing Symphony No. 2. But he is pleasingly matter-of-fact about his precociousness. "I don't like all this prodigy rubbish," he says. "I just started early...
...basic necessity for worship and prayer. "Liturgy must be an expression of something that is happening in the community," says the Rev. David Kirk, a Melchite Catholic priest who is founder of a unique interfaith center in Manhattan called Emmaus House. "Without worship, the community is a piece of rubbish." On the other hand, there is little doubt that the churches are in desperate need of new, this-worldly liturgies that reflect present needs rather than past glories...
...work that's unattractive." Dr. Eva J. Salber, the Director of the Martha May Eliot Family Health Center in Bromley-Heath, one of Boston's housing projects, stopped to dig out an article on the Center. A coworker took up the conversation. "Yes, there's rubbish in the halls, and it's not uncommon to find vomit on the steps or urine in the elevators...