Word: solemnizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farmers (all white) at an experimental farm south of Zambezi Escarpment. At an elephant barbecue on the shores of Lake Kariba, while maidens of the primitive Batonka tribe danced bare-breasted to the throb of buffalo-hide drums, Batonka Chief Binga attacked the African nationalists, adding with solemn African symbolism that "you cannot change a brown cow into a white...
...columnists, one solemn, one satirical, offered the State Department some policy advice last week that was strangely similar. On his annual CBS-TV interview, Walter Lippmann proposed his solution for attacks on U.S. installations abroad: "I think what we ought to do in a place like Cairo, if they burned down our library, is leave it burned down. Just leave it there. Don't rebuild it, don't clean the street even, and let it stand there as a monument to the thing. I think they'll soon want to clean it up themselves...
Once Roman Catholic cardinals, upon elevation to the title, humbly kissed the Pope's foot and afterwards lay prostrate before an altar while solemn prayers were said for them. Last week, when Paul VI presented 27 clerics with their red hats,* they swore their fealty standing up. The creation of a cardinal is still one of the world's most imposing religious ceremonies, but in the spirit of the Catholic aggiornamento Paul has made some measured simplifications...
...dramatic peak of the new ceremony was a solemn pontifical Mass concelebrated by the Pope and his new cardinals. It was, as Paul made clear, intended to symbolize the reality of episcopal collegiality-the idea, expressed by the Vatican Council's redefinition of the church, that bishops share ruling power with the Pope. In his address to the new cardinals, the Pope spoke of them as "our collaborators and advisers in guiding and governing the Holy Catholic Church...
Then, in a literary disappearance as abrupt and unexplained as Ambrose Bierce's, Shaw vanished. He was replaced by someone else named Irwin Shaw, who produced the swollen, solemn war novel The Young Lions. The craftsman's joy in a job done as well as a man could do it was missing; the book's two elaborate plots alternated like the footfalls of a tired man clumping upstairs...