Word: solemnizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Solemn Ritual. Though there are also free gold markets in Hong Kong, Paris and Zurich, most of the world's bullion trading is done on the London market-and the pattern for world prices is set there. Every working day in solemn ritual, dark-suited representatives of the five London firms authorized by the British government to deal in bullion meet in a second-floor room of the House of Rothschild. Signaling any changes in their offers by raising tiny British flags, "the fixers" spend about ten minutes arriving at the opening bullion price for the day. Thereafter...
...presence of the age. Until, and even after, his death in 1955, the Vatican forbade the publication of his nonscientific works, largely because he accepted evolution as the key to human history. In the eyes of Rome, Teilhard remains a near heretic. Last month the Holy Office issued a solemn warning for religious superiors "to guard souls, especially of the young, against the dangers contained in the works of Father Teilhard de Chardin and his followers...
What's wrong with U.S. theological seminaries and divinity schools? Plenty, charges Hartford Seminary Foundation's Peter Berger, 33, a Lutheran sociologist whose vivid attacks (The Precarious Vision, The Noise of Solemn Assemblies) on the organizational church are fast earning him a reputation as a kind of Connecticut Kierkegaard. Writing in the July issue of Theology Today, Berger argues that the seminaries have become so concerned with trying to provide for the short-term institutional needs of the church that they are in danger of forgetting what a Protestant minister really ought to be: first and foremost...
Letting Go, by Philip Roth. The talented satirist of Goodbye, Columbus has produced a long novel on the troubles of the university young; page by page, it is a delight of flawless dialogue and sour wit, but taken in sum it is another solemn novel about a young man lured by the sirens of Meaninglessness...
Commencement week picks up steam today as the many events Wednesday and the solemn exercises Thursday approach. The University offers open house and tours at its new buildings constructed under the Program for Harvard College...