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...life in Narayan's stories consists largely of people doing just what they and their ancestors have been doing for hundreds of years. They propitiate the gods as best they can. In Nitya, a couple remember a solemn vow to shave their two-year-old son's head and offer his hair as tribute if he recovers from whooping cough and convulsions. Unfortunately, the healthy young man is now 20 and in no mood to cooperate: "You had no business to pawn my scalp without consulting me." The hero of All Avoidable Talk is a clerk who learns from...
...Friday, April 15, 11 pm, Vatican City Time is getting short, folks. Less than 72 hours until the 115 elector Cardinals will stride into the Sistine Chapel and take a vow to "observe faithfully and scrupulously" the secret and solemn rite for electing the next Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. Truly reliable information continues to be scant, but several emerging hypotheses offer an indication of how the voting may go. Though my Cardinal sources have been faithful to their self-imposed press ban, I have continued to talk to a number of Vatican officials and others...
...make a hell of a lot of difference, of course, for it meant that the bloodiest war Europe had ever known was finished. "In all our long history, we have never seen a greater day than this," Winston Churchill told the crowds in Parliament Square. "This is a solemn but glorious hour," said President Harry Truman. "We join in offering our thanks to the Providence which has guided and sustained us through the dark days of adversity...
...traverses terrain that George Miller and the rest of Max's creators have fully charted before. Once again, as they did in The Road Warrior, they have flirted with greatness. The question that remains for Mad Max IV to answer is, Can they embrace it? And not go all solemn when they do? --By Richard Schickel
...happened to tune in to MSNBC on March 17 in the hopes of viewing the nation’s legislative body executing its solemn duty, you would have been disappointed, and perhaps even slightly frightened. There was no discussion of Social Security or foreign policy being shown that day. Instead, a long and protracted cross-examination of several unwitting targets was being conducted, targets whose defensive replies did nothing to soften the inflammatory questions being thrown at them from indignant congressmen...