Word: solemnizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Never before, except in the photographs of Lincoln, have I seen the solemn responsibilities of the presidency more aptly reflected...
...solemn ceremonies of installing abbots are likely to be used more and more in the nation's future. Monasteries are relative latecomers to the institutional life of the Catholic Church in the U.S.; the first Benedictine monastery, St. Vincent's Archabbey in Latrobe, Pa., is only 115 years old. But now they are bursting with new vitality-and new affluence. In all, there are more than 2,000 American Benedictines, almost one-sixth of the worldwide strength of that order, which is far and away the leading branch of Christian monasticism. The non-Benedictine Trappists have established eight...
...burnished red-brown of copper. The man was as vivid as the flag. He dressed his mounted honor guard in plumed helmets and blazing tunics bought secondhand from the Garde Républicaine in France, and seated them on broken-down nags sent up from Rhodesia. He was the solemn black defender of white capitalism in middle Africa, a rarity; yet he sneered at his Belgian sponsors as deceitful, and at the U.S. as "cowardly and decadent." He was urbane and charming, with a clever turn of phrase couched invariably in excellent French. But he was also superstitious enough...
...hailed a "salubrious" ferment in their classrooms. "This is the most exciting thing in my career," says English Teacher Harold R. Keables, veteran of 27 years at Denver's South High School. "There is a new appreciation of intellectual achievement. The kids are perhaps more serious, but not solemn or glum or dull. They are on fire with enthusiasm for learning...
...special message celebrating the 50th birthday of Rome's Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, Pope.'John XXIII noted that "it is a duty to make sure that the Latin language maintains its regal sceptre and its noble dominion in all solemn liturgy." The Pope encouraged the use of good popular hymns in the vernacular at non-solemn liturgical functions. But Latin, he added, "is permanently connected with the sacred melodies of the Church of Rome, and is a clear and splendid symbol of unity . . . It must continue to maintain its sovereign position to which it has every right...