Word: shawl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ordinary Sabbaths his new synagogue in the round is filled, and more than half the worshipers are young adults under 30. But Riskin has prepared middle-aged men as well as teenagers for Bar Mitzvah, and last Yom Kippur gave an 80-year-old man his first prayer shawl...
...sanctity. But this is House drama, produced at a Harvard House. That Harvard is not the same as the real world seems fairly certain at this point. Do things that happen at Harvard also happen simultaneously in the real world? Probably not, and the resulting shared-dirty-joke shawl which protectively envelops Coop rebates embarrassing WHRB-broadcasted speeches at Faculty meetings, and the President of the University's press releases is also the shawl that makes the Virgin's energetic screams of labor pain the object of unerring, honest delight...
...bald man. Here and there the trunks of fallen coconut palms lay on the edge of the ditches, and the dead bamboo stood with its naked stalks pointing up to the sky. The dull yellow and the ash-gray covered the earth and stretched like a mourning shawl toward the horizon...