Word: ward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attract them into their homes with the smells of a good meal, a strategy obviously not in the interests of the living, or else to scare them away with firecrackers and dragons. But as the fear of these evil spirits declined in china, so did the impulse to ward them off, producing the paradoxical situation of many Chinese immigrants seeing a dragon dance for the first time when they came to the United States...
...Ward McCabe San Jose, Calif...
...great problems of all this history is thesis mongering, the intertwining of ideology and fashion with academic evidence. The black experience in the U.S., from slavery on ward, has been rich, immensely varied, extremely complicated and often difficult to lay hold of. Blacks in slavery were kept il literate and so left almost exclusively their oral tradition- which, of course, is what Roots...
...institute, which fills the top floor of a 70-year-old red brick building, is a huge meditation room that doubles as a dance studio. Here, seated on red cushions, the students and the mainly Buddhist staff meditate for 26 hours weekly. "It is purely voluntary," explains Jeremy Hay ward, a Cambridge University physicist who is now Naropa's vice president. "But we nearly all do it. Meditation is the key." Otherwise there are few Eastern trappings: no beads, bells, robes, incense or even long hair. Says Ron Greathead, 33, a drama student: "We don't talk about...
...just hope it isn't haunted," John Ward, a staff assistant in the Widener business office, said...