Word: solemnizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...electric shocks at unexpected moments." Many of the shocks came from Zen Buddhism, which Koestler feels makes sense in Japan's rigidly conformist social structure. "Taken at face value and considered in itself," he writes, "Zen is at best an existentialist hoax, at worst a web of solemn absurdities. But within the frame work of Japanese society, this cult of the absurd, of ritual leg-pulls and nose-tweaks, made beautiful sense. It was, and to a limited extent still is, a form of psychotherapy for a selfconscious, shame-ridden society, a technique of undoing the strings which tied...
...take-over from clergymen seems almost complete- and more profitable than ever. So reports the Roman Catholic magazine Jubilee in an article showing that anywhere in the U.S., a family can dispose of its dead in an atmosphere of cheery and costly flimflam, designed to slur over the solemn fact that once brought man into the presence...
...swooning. It was a shred man who manufactured the buttons reading "If I were 21, I'd vote for Kennedy." Of course, many people whom the law defines as mature also lend their voices to the emotional outburst, as if Kennedy were a film star, not a candidate for solemn high office...
Last week a solemn procession wound through the streets of Milan. In a flower-decked automobile rode the heads of the two soldier saints with an honor guard of artillery troops in dress uniforms, and behind them came Milan's Cardinal Montini. In the church dedicated to the two martyrs, the heads were laid to rest in a glass reliquary with a special Mass...
...disturbingly straightforward ghoul that has merely giggled at the discussion of foreign policy in the last four television debates grew solemn this week. The suspicion that the candidates' impulsive exchanges of facile polemic on complex problems of foreign policy were, at the least, ill-considered, expanded into violent criticism of their stands...