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Beneath the twin rows of cypresses that lead up to Tokyo's Meiji Shrine, an old Japanese farmer paused last week to explain his year-end pilgrimage. "The people's feelings are settling down," the farmer said. "From now on it will be best for us to be what we really are-Japanese." In Tokyo a Japanese editorial writer echoed the sentiment more formally: "The whole nation is searching for its lost pride." Last week the search was in full swing...
When Gian-Carlo Menotti was a child, at home near Milan, he was crippled in one leg. A devout nurse took him to a shrine of the Madonna, and shortly afterwards he was cured. He still believes that his cure could have been miraculous. But at the same time, Composer Menotti also believes that he does not believe: he admits to skepticism and has left the Roman Catholic Church. This contradiction has turned up in Menotti operas before (e.g., The Medium), in the shape of dramatic conflicts between some form of faith and reason. The theme is rousingly treated...
...slabs with pickaxes and dragged a young Hindu out of a freshly dug grave. A 25-year-old laborer who had become the sadhus' "disciple" only two months before, he was barely alive. But dead or alive, his act of faith would have made the hill a profitable shrine for his masters who would later pass the hat to pilgrims coming there to seek divine grace. After rescuing the victim, the police raced on to a nearby temple to round up some of the other sadhus who had joined in the ceremony. As the cops arrived, the holy...
...gang of laborers set to work (TIME, Sept. 6). From tombs came vivid paintings on stone of household scenes and fighting gladiators. Last summer Sestieri uncovered a small, completely buried building, made a hole in its roof and lowered himself into the stagnant dimness. He was in the central shrine of Hera, Goddess of Fertility, and patron of Paestum. Jars and vases held solidified honey, sacred to Hera (see opposite page). It is likely that no one had entered that shrine for at least 2,500 years...
...private mobile hospital (a converted bus) and by private railroad car between Chicago and Florida became commonplace. Then, with his devout Roman Catholic family and an entourage of twelve (a doctor, five nurses, a physiotherapist, two orderlies, two mechanics and a chauffeur), he made the pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes. From the Vatican came the Pope's personal blessing. Fred Snite saluted the Pope "as an honorary fellow alumnus of the University of Notre Dame," insisted: "I ask no miracle ... I came here to receive the spiritual strength to keep on getting better...