Word: scrolled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pages; $12.50), an old-fashioned chortler of a book. Next to a sign reading DO NOT FEED THE BEARS a smirking moose wears his own sign: I AM NOT A BEAR. Elephants stand around remembering "the Alamo," "the Maine," "Pearl Harbor" and a toga-clad pig solemnly inscribes a scroll under a sign that says...
Whatever else may be missing in the People's Republic, China and the Chinese more than compensate the open-minded visitor. The Foreign Friend leaves with indelible memories effaces and places, good manners and memorable food, candid conversation and cultural confrontation. A jumble of vignettes on a parchment scroll...
...jacket, made of heavy blue or gray cotton and well stitched, is a bargain at $11; a matching Mao cap costs $1.50. Friendship Stores in each city, catering to foreigners, offer more exotic but in many cases bargains-priced goods such as embroideries, porcelain, jade jewelry, furs, silks, scroll paintings and antique furniture. The attendants seem scrupulously honest. At some of the antique stores, though, the young comrades behind the counter are apt to be woefully ignorant of the objets d'art they are selling. In Wusih, a customer reasonably well versed in Chinese asks a salesgirl the exact...
Master of Ceremonies Virgilio Noé held a large scroll before him as John Paul I read out his first apostolic blessing, the traditional benediction, urbi et orbi (to the city and to the world). His high voice quavered a bit as he chanted the Latin in lilting Gregorian style. Before the blessing, the new Pope made an unusual gesture, granting "to all" who heard the words?either in person or by broadcast?a plenary indulgence. In Catholic belief, all sins, though forgiven, must be atoned for?either here on earth or, after death, in purgatory. For those truly repentant...
...charges swirled about them, the young couple had a quickie marriage in Reno and a second ceremony in San Francisco at the headquarters of the controversial Jews for Jesus, whose Cambridge branch was responsible for Levitt's conversion. On the walls were paintings of a Menorah, a Torah scroll and Jesus bearing the Cross. Below, a banner proclaimed MAZEL TOV KEN AND CHRIS...