Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adopt the "Harvard broad A." That's the first sign that the freshman student is beginning to change. Then they wear a crimson sweater with a huge "H". Another sign that they are fast becoming a part of the Harvard indoctrination. Before you know it these young "virgin people" are beginning to talk and act like all the Harvard classes before them. They're full of "piss 'n'vinegar." They want to change the world. They want to build and create a UTOPIA so the poor and the downtrodden will no longer suffer. What a joke! They come to Harvard...
...responding in a magnificent way. It shows there's a great spiritual hunger. The Pope has reached millions of Protestants. The organized ecumenical movement seems to be on the back burner and ecumenicity is now taking place where Roman Catholics and Protestants share beliefs in matters like the Virgin Birth and the Resurrection of Christ...
...wise men wander into a manger, but it's the wrong one--no haloed Virgin Mary greets them in the straw; Terry Jones's familiar crone voice--a Python staple from "Penguin on the Telly" on down--bursts any reverential bubble, and we're back in the begrimed world of most Monty Python comedies...
...victim of the latest bombing was Therese Assale, 35, who had fled with her family at the start of the Israeli bombardment. A few days later she returned to the ruin of her home to salvage a blanket, some sweaters and a silver medallion of the Virgin Mary. Three of her friends had been buried alive in the rubble...
...political atmosphere surrounding the school was pro-Vichy and of course antiSemitic. Young Pavel/Paul-Henri languished, sickened and nearly died, but in the end survived, in a masquerade that became a reality. He found in the Virgin a kind of substitute for his mother, he says, and became a wholehearted convert...