Word: shrines
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There probably was a shrine made for Zakowich in the locker room after that period, considering he came up huge for Harvard time after time, as the defense allowed a host of three-on-two and man-advantage breaks. When St. Lawrence finally scored, it took Stevens three attempts to get the biscuit past Zakowich...
...this impromptu shrine, a griever named Creek left a rock he had found on a nearby beach. "I hope Jerry's happy," he said. Creek, who has attended nearly 200 Dead concerts, is four years old. The boy's mother, Kathy, 23, watched over him through her dreadlocks. "I hope he remembers this day," she murmured. "It's a special thing--to feel all the love...
Lodge rescues his story by taking a daring chance. Recalling a teenage romance with a pure Irish Catholic girl named Maureen, Tubby resolves to track her down. He finds her struggling along the pilgrimage road toward the famous Spanish shrine of Santiago de Compostela. In the 40 intervening years, she has married and had children, including a beloved son who was recently killed while doing relief work in Angola. Maureen is still a simple, good person. Through her, Tubby recovers his essential decency--plus a healthy knee and sexual potency. By subtle shifts in tone, Lodge has grafted a hackneyed...
...students in Cabot Science Library burning the midnight oil, the white marble buildings of Harvard Medical School (HMS) represent something of a holy shrine--and institution to be fantasized about over problem sets and lab reports...
...saints from his own Capuchin order: "It's pretty disappointing when you work for years and years and then see the miracle get rejected." But others suggest it could be stricter still. There is another major miracle-validating body in the Catholic world: the International Medical Committee for the shrine at Lourdes. Since miracles at Lourdes are all ascribed to the intercession of the Virgin Mary, it is not caught up in the saint-making process, which some believe the Pope has running overtime. Roger Pilon, the head of Lourdes' committee, notes that he and his colleagues have not approved...