Word: virgines
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...only New York City Jew for hundreds of miles," I think as I walk down the street towards the famous Grotto, one of the world's most visited Catholic pilgrimage sites, where in the mid-19th century St. Bernadette is said to have had a vision of the Virgin. After a restless overnight train, I am armed with my notebook and my Let's Go press pass, ready to be fascinated, repelled and intrigued. I'm not ready...
...million Estimated tax break the same bill would give rum producers in the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico...
...JACK) MCCLELLAND, 81, flamboyant Canadian publisher who shepherded the careers of Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler and many others; in Toronto. Known for his publicity stunts, McClelland once donned a toga with author Sylvia Fraser and rode in a chariot to promote her novel The Emperor's Virgin. "I can usually tell if a manuscript is good," he once said, "but I can't tell...
...their lives, there arises a sprawling market of creeds and cults and congregations in which people like to shop. The Dalai Lama's books are best sellers; there are Metaphysical Episcopalians and Unitarian Universalist Pagans and, a bit further down the road, the Nudist Christian Church of the Blessed Virgin Jesus...
...poised, limpid line in the elegant whiplashing of Botticelli and the Madonnas of Simone Martini. And that quizzical tilt to the head that you see in his 1919 portrait of Jeanne Hebuterne? It descends from the canted heads--a sign of humility--in Renaissance depictions of the Virgin...