Word: shrine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...endless roadside identity checks, detours and delays. Yet, despite the obstacles thrown up by Wladyslaw Gomulka's Communist regime, some 300,000 devout Poles last week came by bus, car, train, horseback, buggy, bicycle or foot to the Jasna Gora monastery, the nation's most sacred shrine, which stands on a high hill overlooking Czestochowa. On May 3, the traditional Polish national holiday, the pilgrims prayed and sang before a giant outdoor altar through some twelve hours of Masses, sermons and processions that began in steamy, 90° midday heat and lasted until a full, honey-colored moon...
...whether she will work on for a degree after her marriage. "All I know," she says, "is that I'll go where my husband goes." Meanwhile she faces a dither of prenuptial parties and arrangements. The wedding is planned as a "family event" at Washington's National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Last week the White House announced that Luci Johnson's maid of honor will be Older Sister Lynda Bird-who, in denying rumors that she would soon marry Actor George Hamilton, was making Page One herself...
...eyes, that India was falling under U.S. domination. "The day of imperialism is not yet over,'' he warned in a mad melange of metaphor. 'The empire comes in by the back door, the front door and the side door. We may worship at the shrine of nonalignment, but if we throw away the content by letting the man who pays the piper call the tune, then there will be no nonalignment. So far as the U.S. is concerned, you do not get any more money by sucking up. If you want aid, don't beg them...
...productions it has staged over the years, 60 have been 20th century works, including 26 U.S. and world premieres. Quite a record for a company that was founded as something of an afterthought. Back in 1942, when the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine was unable to pay the taxes on its Mecca Temple, Fiorello La Guardia foreclosed. The place was an unsalable white elephant, a dome-topped edifice built in 1925 and styled in Turkish-bath rococo. La Guardia finally decided to subsidize an opera company to present quality productions at moderate prices. Hungarian-born...
When Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall unveiled plans for the new Ellis Island national shrine last week, he set in motion the wheels that in some eight to ten years, with the help of about $12 million, will make some such conversation possible. The overgrown, 27.5-acre island in New York's harbor through which passed more than 16 million immigrants between 1892 and 1954 is about to be redone, partially as a collection of romantic ruins, in part as a great reinforced concrete memorial facing on its own open, grassy plaza...