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...people. To mark the 600th anniversary of the death of St. Sergius of Radonezh, an enormous banner recently appeared on the facade of the Historical Museum in Red Square. It bore the slogan REVEREND FATHER SERGIUS, PRAY TO GOD FOR US. An outsider would see the irony in a saint occupying the spot once reserved for larger-than-life portraits of Marx and Lenin. Not a Russian. During a recent missionary crusade by U.S. evangelist Billy Graham, large crowds stood by the speaker's platform to commit their lives to Christ and fill a spiritual void left after the collapse...
...worst advice my mother ever gave me was: My mother was a saint--saints don't give bad advice...
...progress through my first semester at Harvard. These days, I think frequently of a Nike advertisement I once saw: "Ten million decibels loud. And it doesn't care if you're tired. Or if it's our birthday. Or if it's some holiday honoring a saint. So, though you'd rather not, you start down the road again. The road--when it calls, it screams. Just...
Sometime in the mid-'80s, Cope suddenly remembered that electric guitars were really cool. The result was the brilliant 1987 release Saint Julian. Trust me--even if you buy Floored Genius, you still need this album. The smash hit "Trampolene" combines the expected lyrical cleverness ("Trampolene/I can't believe you're trampling me/ You tell it to me softly/ Then you disagree") with a truly staggering guitar hook. And, of course, there's "World Shut Your Mouth," a kicky tribute to non-conformity that's garnered Cope his only significant American airplay...
...chanting, bleating, squawking, cooing. At the back of the house, in a white-tiled, surgically clean room, sits an old woman in a white dress. She will remain there for an entire week, eating and resting and praying. The remainder of her initiation into the priesthood of Santeria -- literally, "saint worship" -- will take an entire year, during which she must wear only white, remain celibate and eat only prescribed foods...