Word: solemnizations
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...Euphoria. Nixon was tense and solemn as he announced his latest travel plans at an unscheduled press conference. Then he accepted questions. No, the trips to Peking and Moscow were not directly related. "Neither trip is being taken for the purpose of exploiting what differences may exist between the two nations." Yes, Peking had been informed of the Moscow plans. So had Japan and the NATO allies. Both trips will be working trips, will include both Secretary of State William Rogers and Kissinger, and will be attended by "an absolute minimum of ceremony." Said Nixon: "The purpose of both visits...
...Mormon rams of Brigham Young's polygamous persuasion still exist, but they do not roar; they whisper. Scattered across every county in Utah, most numerous in the Salt Lake Valley, live perhaps 20,000 men, women and children who still take literally Young's solemn litany: "The only men who become Gods, even the sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy." They keep their private lives extremely private, for polygamy is illegal in Utah, as in every other state, and was outlawed by the Church of Jesus
...Berger, 42, perhaps America's leading religious sociologist, first won attention with The Noise of Solemn Assemblies, a trenchant attack on the smug, conventional Protestant churches of the 1950s. Back then, Berger reminded the ecumenical leaders last week, he and other critics seemed to be "banging against the locked gates of majestically self-confident institutional edifices." The situation could not be more different today. In the years since, said Berger, Protestants have suffered a failure of nerve and are wallowing in "masochistic self-laceration" or "hysterical defensiveness." He bluntly told the ecumenists that their efforts to regroup...
...some U.S. cities, there were sporadic demonstrations protesting the assault. From throughout New York and across its borders, prison officers, state troopers and other lawmen arrived in Attica to attend a solemn and trying round of wakes and funerals for the slain hostages. Dressed in trim uniforms and saluting sharply, but sometimes weeping, they helped the town mourn...
...really no other way." Ironically, he added, reader response to subscription offers has recently been the best in Look's history. "Now, at the end," Cowles lamented, "we have the most interested and best educated audience we have ever had. We tried to be serious without being solemn, entertaining without being frivolous, angry without being bitter, and hopeful without being complacent. And generally, I believe, we succeeded...