Word: virginity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peace Corps' own training centers in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands...
...southern Italy, where flies buzz and donkeys bray through a stillness quite cordial to Biblical tradition. In desolate, crumbling villages, Pasolini chokes the narrow streets with children, animals and a startling collection of peasant faces. None are professional actors; the Apostle Judas is a Roman truck driver, the Virgin Mary in her later years is Pasolini's mother. Pasolini catches their simplicity and intensity with powerful effect. His camera seems to rove, news-reel-style, seeking truth among the halt, the healed, the healers, the doubters and the eyewitnesses involved in some ancient miracles. Occasionally, the film...
...examples you gave in "The Barrendipity Game" [Jan. 28], we found no Eskimo Pies in Eskimoland, no canaries in the Canary Islands, no Siamese cats in Siam, no Maltese cats in Malta, and discovered that Panama hats are not made in Panama. So my husband suggested checking the Virgin Islands...
...Acres of old maids" (as one priest puts it) have loved the novena-the Roman Catholic prayer service, usually offered once a week in the evening in honor of a saint or the Virgin Mary. Now the novena seems to be dying. Next month the magazine Novena Notes, published by the Servile Fathers to promote novenas to Our Sorrowful Mother, will suspend publication because there is no real demand for it. "The novena is no longer very popular," say the editors. "In fact, attendance has fallen to a perilous low mark...
...repose of a dead person's soul. Gradually it evolved into a prayer service in which people asked a favorite saint to plead their cause in heaven. In modern times, many novenas became perpetual-conducted weekly in churches throughout the year. The most popular were dedicated to the Virgin Mary under a variety of names such as Our Lady of Perpetual Help or Our Sorrowful Mother...