Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vigil is to express our sadness that violence against women and sexism are alive and kicking at Penn," said Julie Drizin, a member of the university's Undergraduate Assembly and one of the march's chief organizers. --The Daily Pennsylvanian
Stevens' weekly discussion group for this course focuses on civil disobedience, and on Good Friday the 14 students in the group joined forces with the Yale Divinity School and other Northeastern theological schools to stage a non-violent "witness" or vigil outside the Electric Boat Co, in Groton, Conn., where Trident submarines are manufactured. More than 30 students lashed their arms crucifix-style to the fence and were arrested, and four Harvard students were arrested for planting flowers outside a memorial to the individuals who gave money for the Trident project. Kim Harvie, a second year MDiv students...
...refreshingly indifferent to his sudden celebrity. Says he: "You lose credibility if you're too well known." A father of seven, he sleeps only four or five hours a night to make time for his family and the 16-hr, workday he favors. Typically, DeVries was standing vigil at Clark's side when his patient died...
...when doctors discovered that he had lung cancer, he underwent life-threatening surgery; waiting for word of his fate amounted to a national vigil. Godfrey initially announced his retirement so that he would not be seen to "waste away." But he was perpetually rejuvenated by optimism. At 65, a decade after the surgery, he said: "The only things I have given up are cigarettes and tap dancing." He continued on daily radio until 1972, and in the next decade made repeated attempts at a TV comeback before succumbing to respiratory ailments last week...
Already during the Mass in San José, the Pope gleaned hints of the difficulties he would face the next day in Nicaragua, where both the church and its followers are deeply divided over the policies of a revolutionary government. A group of 300 Nicaraguan exiles kept a silent vigil on a grassy knoll, holding up banners denouncing the Sandinista regime. Said one: IN NICARAGUA RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION EXISTS! Another, referring to harassment of early Christians in Rome, read: NO CATACOMBS IN NICARAGUA! Though Nicaragua's Catholic leaders supported the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship, moderate clerics have now grown wary...