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...face it--there are 19 bowl games between now and January 17, plus professional football's countdown to the Super Bowl--football is forever. There is the Senior Bowl, the Hula Bowl, the East-West Shrine Bowl and the Blue-Gray Classic, all all-star games. There are the four major Bowls--Sugar, Orange, Rose and Cotton--the four next-to-major bowls--Peach, Gator, Sun and Fiesta--and a smattering of junk bowls, foremost among them the Liberty, Tangerine and Bluebonnet...
Chief among the celebrities were the poets Oliver Wendall Homes and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Holmes addressed the children first, reciting a poem he had written while homesick during a trip to Pisa, Italy. "And still in Memory's holiest shrine, I read with pride and joy," he said in a gentle tone. "For me the stars of empire shine; that empire's dearest home is mine; I am a Cambridge...
First there was to be the John F. Kennedy Library, a monumental shrine drawing bus after bus of the nostalgic. Community opposition convinced the trustees it might be better to install the museum on Boston's Columbia Point...
...Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Indian businessman who, late in life, took monastic vows and in 1965 arrived in New York City to launch the Hare Krishna movement. But the swami died three years ago, and the building was turned into a samadh (shrine) in his memory. Two devotional rooms contain life-size (and unnervingly lifelike) statues of the founder made of resin...
...scene of the colossal blast, which tore a 4-ft. crater in the main waiting room and destroyed one entire side of the station, Bologna's mourners created their own folk shrine to the dead. Bouquets of carnations and gladioli were tossed, some with photographs of victims attached. Lines of young travelers with rucksacks paused thoughtfully on the way to their trains. By week's end vases of flowers could be seen among the plastic-covered bouquets stacked at the scene of the explosion, thus giving an air of permanence to the site. Occasionally a housewife would kneel...