Word: sacredness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Advance's first isue as a national publication (it's a quarterly "with frequent news letters") is now on the stands, and frankly it is quite disappointing. Where one hopes to find a lively gadfly tossing pointed barbs at sacred cows, one finds only a puerile magazine that, alas, will...
Veni Creator Spiritus. The council will open with a splendor to match its high goal. From his throne in the Hall of Benedictions of the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, Pope John XXIII will intone the first notes of the 9th century hymn Veni Creator Spiritus (Come, Holy Ghost). Then...
Sacred Grubs. Among the ceremonials may be the re-enacting of their legend of creation. In olden times, the Asmat believe, a great magician wandered through their country. He was alone, and when he began to long for company, he carved wooden figures and set them up in a forest...
Well fortified with sacred grubs, the Asmat then pick out several unusually beautiful mangrove trees and attack them.
The new pact dissolves all barriers to trade and travel between the two countries, and makes the usual vow to regain "sacred Arab rights in Palestine." The promise of mutual military support strengthens the regimes of both Saud and Hussein. By itself. Saud's ragtag soldiery would be of...