Word: st
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lennington St. Albans...
...seminary, Cincinnati's Hebrew Union College. Yet he considers Reform Judaism to be only a halfhearted effort at liberalism. The answer, he insists, is "polydoxy," a radically open-ended faith with only one absolute: that there are no absolutes. At the first national meeting of polydox Jews in St. Louis last week, Reines proposed the creation of a Polydox Jewish Confederation to unite the radicals...
...White is a smart fellow, and a son of the Old Sod to boot, so he knows that nobody can really cancel St. Paddy's Day. The parade may go by the boards (so much the better, say some of the old-timers--who invariably get stuck in the unenviable position of following the mounted police and their prolific mounts); but in the taverns, they will know how to be after celebrating...
Failure to show up in an Irish bar on St. Patrick's Day is about as close to a treasonable offense as you'll find in any Irish neighborhood. There is a certain air to the Irish pub that sets it apart: the creaminess of the stout, the smokiness of the wooden bar, the perfectly spherical physique of the bartenders. But most of all there is the conversation, which ranges from Joyce to the IRA, to the sermon that new priest had the nerve to preach last Sunday, but, by the fourth beer, always settles down to Sports...
...course, St. Paddy's Day makes the task a little easier. My uncle used to refer to March 17 as "a day when Irishmen of all nations get together to celebrate," and he had a point. So if the guy on the next stool over insists that the key to John Havelicek's success is his fine Irish blood, don't start to argue. Relax and drink up--today, everyone is an Honorary Irishman...