Word: torchlighters
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...people outside the base knew the Army had approved such a group until a couple of months ago, when a photo of a torchlight ritual appeared in a local paper. As word spread, Christian groups and politicians denounced the Wiccans as both satanic and inappropriate in the U.S. Army. Eleven religious organizations called on Christians not to enlist or re-enlist until the Army stops supporting witchcraft. "What's next?" asked Republican Congressman Bob Barr in a letter to Fort Hood's commander. "Will armored divisions be forced to travel with sacrificial animals for satanic rituals?" G.O.P. Senator Strom Thurmond...
...W.S.P.U. adopted a French Revolutionary sense of crowd management, public spectacle and symbolic ceremony. They would greet one of their number on release from prison and draw her triumphantly in a flower-decked wagon through the streets, and they staged elaborate allegorical pageants and torchlight processions, with Mrs. Pankhurst proudly walking at their head (if she wasn't in jail). Her example was followed internationally: the U.S. suffragist Alice Paul, who had taken part in suffragist agitation when she was a student at the London School of Economics, imported Pankhurst militancy to the U.S., leading a march 5,000 strong...
...Scotland, the Hogmanay Party--named for the Scottish New Year's Eve--will be launched with a torchlight procession through Edinburgh, culminating atop Carlton Hill with a huge bonfire. The city center will then be transformed into one blazing outdoor party for some 200,000 hardy celebrators. Nightly festivities will continue throughout the week. While much of the entertainment is free, tickets are required for such events as the rock concert in Princes Street Gardens, which will have a floodlighted Edinburgh Castle as its backdrop. Though the Scottish city can be cold in late December, wool sweaters, drams of single...
Varsity football captain Vincent P. Moravec '50 lent his campus celebrity status to the cause, leading the charge as the head of the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Save the Marshall Plan. In March, the Band led a torchlight parade before a 300-person rally in support of speedy implementation of the European Recovery Program...
...best part of the good side could be intensely moving--if you got past the stage of feeling merely seduced. At moments (one evening in Louisville, Kentucky, for example, at a kind of torchlight rally outside the old Louisville Slugger factory) Clinton's fluent, fervent idealism seemed to open a door--a sentimental one, perhaps--upon a sweeter, better side of America, the side full of promise: the quality he means to suggest when he talks about the Hope of his Arkansas childhood. Whatever his defects, which are manifold, he seems to have no violence in him, no hatred...