Word: solemnizations
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...life." To visitors who come to the gallery, he passes out small square blocks of white plaster with a carnation embedded in each. Despite only two guarded references in the censored Greek press, Athenians have made their way to the gallery in droves. They come in twos and threes, solemn, quiet, and most make their comments in whispers. But a few have been more outspoken. Said one young man: "The wire will be snapped off, the plaster will break, and the carnation will give off its perfume again." Added a university professor, who has recently been dismissed from his post...
...cardinals' investiture ceremonies - which included a Solemn Pontifical Mass concelebrated by the Pope and the new members of the Sacred College - Paul announced what may prove to be his most significant piece of news: the appointment of a new Secretary of State. The man that he chose was France's Jean Cardinal Villot, 63. He succeeds the ailing, 86-year-old Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, at one time the apostolic delegate...
...Pope Paul VI, the solemn ceremonies of Holy Week were more sorrowful than usual. On two successive days, in his most anguished public statements to date on the crisis in the Roman Catholic world, the Pope issued extraordinarily direct attacks on defecting clergy and dissent within the church...
...black, red, white or yellow, Democrat, Republican or Socialist, every man, woman and child in these United States owes a solemn duty to the freedom he or she enjoys in this country to unequivocally back the critical conclusions of our President, who is ipso facto commander in chief in military matters. Virulent dissent asserted by politically minded doves in the U.S. Congress will do irreparable harm to the international strength of America, as it struggles for even a morsel of indication from North Viet Nam that an honorable peace is possible. Half a million men on Asian soil are bleeding...
...this impression is historically false. When this nation began the founding fathers were opposed to political parties. "Let me now take a more comprehensive view," said George Washington in his farewell address, "and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party." Our worries are different from the ones which plagued Washington in his time but a similar question does reappear in the modern context, namely, what is the relationship of political parties to the functioning of American democracy...