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...Cathedral the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared many times and wrought miracles. In 861, three years after the church was destroyed for the first time (by the northern invader Hastings). Charles the Bald donated a treasured relic, the shift of the Virgin (now known as the Sacred Veil). By charging admission to see it, he reasoned, money could be raised for the church's rebuilding. The veil is still there, and Chartres is dedicated to the Virgin. "This church was built for her," wrote Henry Adams, "in this spirit of simpleminded, practical, utilitarian faith-in this singleness...
...King, overthrowing Iran's slack-chinned, 130-year-old Qajar dynasty by force of arms. A wiry, hot-tempered martinet, the old Shah set out to manhandle Iran into the mod ern world, and he did not mind machine-gunning obstreperous peasants to do it. He abolished the veil, and when a Moslem imam criticized the Queen for not wearing one, roared up to the mosque in a convoy of armored cars, marched in, and kicked the priest in the stomach...
...Most people feel that because we are nuns we have lost our appreciation for feminine matters," says Sister Lorenzina of Rome's Catholic Pious Society of the Daughters of St. Paul. "Quite the contrary. A woman remains a woman even after she takes the veil. If she lost her feminine soul, she would become a cold, sterile human being...
...deficient in literary spooks-apart from Thome Smith's thanatipsy Topper. In a first novel that is both sepulchral and oddly appealing. Author Beagle sets out to make good the omission. His tale is a muted, wistful love story that takes tone and title from Andrew Mar-veil's wry lines To His Coy Mistress: The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace...
Tunisia's modern-minded President Habib Bourguiba, a Moslem himself, regards Ramadan as so much cultural excess baggage. He has already officially abolished the veil in Tunisia and introduced European notions of marriage and divorce in place of Islamic laws, in which women have little or no rights. Then he set to work on Ramadan, a custom which he believes helps hold Islamic countries in "stagnation, weakness and decadence." Last year in Ramadan he imposed midnight curfew on coffeehouses and other soots where revelers congregated until dawn...