Word: twelfths
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Second Season. Europe traditionally has two skiing seasons. The first runs from Christmas to Twelfth Night; the second is now under way. (In between, there is a thaw in both snow and prices, and the Alpine slopes are shunned by everybody who is anybody.) In late February, the snow again reaches powdery perfection, and the hotels in old established places in Austria, Switzerland, Italy and France are booked to the ridgepoles...
...dismayed and hurt when his Catholic constituents castigated him for his first appointment to the Naval Academy-of a Jewish boy. (In one ward of his Twelfth District, McCormack is still known as "Rabbi John.") He has consistently defended all minorities, and once, in a battle in the House with Mississippi's Racist John Rankin, he poured forth his feelings: "A man's racial origin means nothing to me, a person's name means nothing to me. A person's religion I respect. But what does mean everything to me is a person's mind...
...situation," the owl revealed, "iss very complex. Luckily, of the twelve forces affecting the problem the first six are irrelevant, the seventh, eighth and ninth are cancelled out by the tenth, and the eleventh is untranslatable from the German, leaving the twelfth force--namely, the most important and remaining one--which I shall now proceed to simplify by game-theory-analysis." Owly Vowly blinked calmly to acknowledge the gasps of admiration from his audience...
Finally, there's the Play of Daniel, the twelfth-century, semi-secular, demi-liturgical Christmas drama from Beauvais. Noah Greenberg has recorded his recent and acclaimed performance at the Cloisters. Russell Oberlin is a soloist (Decca...
...frankincense and myrrh to the Infant Jesus, the early church for centuries forbade or at least discouraged gift giving at Christmas; the Puritans, for example, banned both religious and secular Christmas celebrations as pagan in inspiration. Even today the seasonal exchange of gifts in many lands is made on Twelfth Night (when the Magi reached Bethlehem) or on New Year's Day. Still the early symbols-the pre-Christian gift giving, the evergreen as a mark of enduring life-became stubborn concomitants of the Christmas observance...