Word: worships
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...Saturday lengthens into evening, the cathedral compound fills with the billowing white gabi, or shawls, that envelop men and women alike, serving as turban, blanket, veil. At their own rhythm, people go about the business of worship. Men read from leatherbound lives of the saints; women ululate softly as they lean on tall prayer rests. Everyone will keep the vigil through the night. As darkness falls, shrouded bundles occupy every empty space on the hard, stony ground, huddling around the dim golden flicker of tiny candles...
...lawyer and never wholly forgave him for becoming an artist. To Dove, as to the more conflicted Hartley, Stieglitz was mentor, friend and (virtually) a second father. Starting before World War I, Dove's slow-maturing, thoughtful and deeply felt art gathered up the strands of American nature worship and braided them in a way that linked back to Emerson and, through abstraction, sideways to European artists like Wassily Kandinsky...
...story of The Bacchae is probably rather familiar to most Harvard students by this point, but a quick summary shall be provided for those who are still confused: Dionysos is angry because the people of Thebes are refusing to worship him. He hypnotizes the town's women into running maniacally wild in the mountains. They are known as the Bacchae. Pentheus, the ruler of Thebes, tries to capture Dionysos in his human form. He also humiliates the god and his female band of helpers, called Maenads. Pentheus's secret desire to watch the lurid actions of the Bacchae...
Students in Religion 1007: "Religion in Multicultural America," learn that the large number of religious communities out of the mainstream in the United States is growing so fast that it seems anyone with a bulldozer, some money and a religious vision can build his or her own institution of worship...
...Likely story #2: This past Saturday a UC Berkeley student, whipping up school spirit before the big Stanford-Cal game, pens a satirical column in his school paper urging readers to "show your spirit on Chelsea's bloodied carcass" because the First Daughter "embodies the Stanford ethos of establishment worship that must be subverted and destroyed...