Word: sacredness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Columbia University last year, a Roman Catholic nun working for her M.A. in Russian flew off to the Soviet Union to do interviews on the 1917 Revolution. At the University of California in Berkeley, one of the nation's best centers for Hispanic studies, another nun, expert in...
Lodge from an orphanage she aided in Saigon. The Lodges couldn't spell the breed name of the pups-Lhasa Apso. But a quick look at their genealogy showed they had the makings of ideal companions in such uncertain spots as Saigon. The intelligent, sharp-eared dogs were bred...
Sacred Bodies. Born into a family of wealthy Jewish diamond merchants, Sachs adopted the complete works of the Marquis de Sade as "the bible of my early youth." Armed with that perverse testament, he descended on Paris intent on a literary career. It was a time, Sachs recalls, when young...
Leaving Delhi last week, a special train crawled slowly through a yellow haze of summer dust. In one coach, heaped with red roses, jasmine and white lotus blooms, stood a large silver-and-copper urn holding Nehru's ashes.*Reaching Allahabad, Nehru's home town, late that night...
To the sun-worshiping Indians of the Americas before Columbus, gold was not so much precious as sacred. The Incas of Peru used it freely in wall coverings, in breastplates, in artificial flowers, in provision for tombs-never thinking of it as rare, always stressing the religious emotion they felt...