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...ther beings, it was no wonder that he was peculiar. It was no wonder that at Christmas parties or barrooms he sat and drank in silence feeling like a ... ...useums, Sung Ki gave Sang Huin his beeper number. Sang Huin invited him to a Christmas party held for students at a language institute but stayed cont... ...ivial plastic or paper objects from cereal boxes; Halloween costumes; or the Christmas togetherness. The newness of running around trying to beat the ... ...ce at the sun. She turned toward her mother and mentioned some eagerness for Christmas. Her mother turned toward Gabriele with stoic facial expression... ...ns and then crassly spoke in German that Gabriele should stop thinking about Christmas since it was a long way off. The mother snapped the clothes on ... ...fauna. She knew the guilt and fear of pouring oneself from the container of traditions he or she was raised with. Most people needed to change conta... ...eling markets in Umsong) were sort of sweet and real. The only vestige rural traditions in Seoul were the traditional weddings at the Korean Folk Vill... ...olk of Korea were Koreans too and no one was more conservative with cultural traditions than a Korean. The theatre people consciously acknowledged se...

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...able than the bullying he had undergone at school. We were very happy that Christmas, and very proud of our boys. One evening we were treated to a box... ... as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted.’ —Hood. WE HAD A HOUSEFUL at Christmas. The Rev. Charles Henderson, a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford,... ...direct my studies, and to prepare Martyn for school. He came to us for the Christmas vacation to recon- noitre and engage lodgings at a farmhouse. We ... ...ce- fully resumed. It irked my father to think of the good lady’s solitary Christmas at Bath, and he asked her to come to us. She travelled half-way i... ...as restless until both the brothers came home together, long after dark on Christmas Eve, having been met by the gig at the corner where the coach sto... ...church, whatever it might be; nor, indeed, had Clarence swerved from these traditions. Poor Mrs. Sophia was baulked of the game at whist, which she vi... ... eighty-eight, having kept her faculties to the last, and handed down many traditions to her great-niece. The old lady’s father had been contemporary ...

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...the hand of man has cre- ated, is represented, on the authority of ancient traditions, to have uttered at sunrise, or soon after as the sun’s rays had... ...Mycenae, destined to be the scene of murders so memorable through the long traditions of the Grecian stage, murders that, many centuries after all the... ... did not become me to occupy the king’s attention with any long stories or traditions about a subject so unimportant as my own family; and yet it was ... ...A young gentleman, the son of a wealthy banker, had to return home for the Christmas holidays to a town in Lincolnshire, distant from the public schoo...

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...A tale of the quaint and old English traditions of celebrating Christmas. Irving travels to the English countryside and meets an old schoolmate, who invites him home to spend Christmas at the family estate. (Summary written by Gesine)...

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...o be generally known by the title of Annual, being a miscellany of prose and verse, equipped with numerous engravings, and put forth every year about Christmas, had flourished for a long while in Germany before it was imitated in this country by an enterprising bookseller, a German by birth, Mr. Ackermann. The rapid success of his work, as is the custom of the time, gave b...

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...about the end of the last century. I never saw him indeed; but my mother’s traditions were full of his wit, gallantry, and dissipation. This gay knigh...

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...is this, De Bracy?” said Fitzurse, some- what angrily; “is this a time for Christmas gambols and quaint maskings, when the fate of our master, Prince ... ...saw the arrow shot which won this gay prize, and that not so long since as Christmas.” “And I,” said Gurth, “could take it on my halidome, that I have... ...rms, of which each vile crowder hath a stock that might last from hence to Christmas.” “Proud damsel,” said De Bracy, incensed at finding his gal- lan... ...materials of my chaplain, who died a twelvemonth since in the midst of his Christmas carousals—” “So please ye,” said the squire, who was still in att... ...eing stuck with as many shafts as there are cloves in a gammon of bacon at Christmas.” “Well said, stout yeoman,” answered the Black Knight; “and if I... ...ink it strange that no attempt has been made to excite an interest for the traditions and manners of Old England, similiar to that which has been obta... ...sh and a Scottish author in the rival task of embody- ing and reviving the traditions of their respective countries, would be, you alleged, in the hig...

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...found in place or thing 785 To extrinsic transitory accidents, To records or traditions; but a sense Of what had been here done, and suffered here Thr... ...her Of these to me affecting incidents, 345 With which we will conclude. One Christmas time, The day before the holidays began, Feverish, and tired, a...

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...haracter of the natives -- Houses and boats of the Caledonians -- Anchorage at Christmas Sound -- Visited by the Fuegans -- Killing of seal and sea-bi... ...iterranean shores. THE VIKING NAVIGATORS. The preceding are hardly better than traditions, in which little or no confidence can be placed. But there w... ...onquered its inhabitants, which were said to have been Irish. This, like other traditions, however, is scarcely to be credited, although there is cons... ...pass thousands upon thousands of years of penance in the form of a fish. Every Christmas Eve he came to the shore at the ruins of a small chapel that ... ...ct water route to India lay by sailing east. This belief was fortified by many traditions, such as the voyage of Hanno which, though generally regarde... ...rk that they ascribe to the statues a supernatural origin. Of the theories and traditions set forth to account for these stone images only one has any... ...er, that a safe anchorage was found in a harbor to which Cook gave the name of Christmas Sound. Here he met several of the greasy, naked, loud-smellin... ... the aim of those who had fowling pieces, and a great banquet was prepared for Christmas day, which proved the most delicious repast that the crew had... ...r, repairing his ships and rigging, when at last weighing anchor, he stood for Christmas Sound, calling at Kerguelen's Land on the way, where a large ...

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...tory, and well worthy of note and remembrance, as one of the finest extant traditions of a whole chain of Golden Deeds. THE THE THE THE THE T T T T TW... ...e in such disregard, and thought all would give way to the Emperor’s will. Christmas had come, but for one man at Milan there were no hymns, no shouts... ...ds from the wilds of Asia on pilgrimage, to visit the shrines and keep his Christmas at Rome—they knew he was a holy man—no more, and it is not even c... ...ch is all in favor of the truth of the story. But, on the other hand, such traditions often are prompted by the sight of the fossil skeletons of the d... ...hus they still enabled the garrison to hold out. So all the winter passed, Christmas was kept with brilliant feastings and high merriment by the King ... ...urch’, which was in general accorded to all sacred spots. Thus it was that Christmas and Carnival time of 1435-6 had been spent by the Court in the cl...

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...ence with Friends, 1847. ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS: Cossack Tales (The Night of Christmas Eve, Tarass Boolba), trans. by G. Tolstoy, 1860; St. John’s Eve a... ...? Only, only—I will do so another time.” “I shall have some ready at about Christmas.” “Quite so, madam. Then I will buy anything and every- thing—the... ...oney in the world. It has long been our peasants’ play-ground, and all the traditions of our village are bound up with it. Moreover, for me, old custo...

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...gnified in size. This must go to you to-morrow, so that you may read it on Christmas Day for company. I hope it may be good company to you. 62 The Le... ... the present six shillings and a penny; I have a sounding lot of bills for Christmas; new dress suit, for instance, the old one having gone for Parlia... ...hs. So that here I am, I almost fear, for the winter; certainly till after Christmas, and then it depends on how my bills ‘turn out’ whether it shall ... ...ll very uncertain, and it is not likely that any- thing will happen before Christmas. In the meanwhile, I believe I shall live on here ‘between the sa... ... here comfortably enough; but I shall soon be left all alone, perhaps till Christmas. Then you may hope for correspondence – and may not I? – Your fri... ...er alia, to tell you that I had visited my mur- der place and found living traditions not yet in any printed book; most startling. I also got photogra...

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...lives with. And he was begin- ning to perceive dimly that, whereas his own traditions were entirely collective, his wife was a sheer individualist. Hi... ...s having his own body and soul at his own disposal. But his loyalty to the traditions of his family would not permit him to bind any future inheritors... ...that, having let loose the bonds of her standards, her conventions and her traditions, she was being, for the first time, her own natural self. She wa... ... had happened. Towards eleven Edward came to Nancy, who was arranging some Christmas roses in a silver bowl. He put a telegram beside her on the table... ...ut, drunk or sober, he stuck to what was demanded by convention and by the traditions of his house. Nancy Rufford had to be exported to India, and Nan... ...y it worked out for the greatest good of the body politic. Conventions and traditions, I suppose, work blindly but surely for the preservation of the ...

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...is way through, it must needs appear to him a monstrous development of the Christmas pantomimes, spun out here and there into intolerable lengths of d... ... which, though none the worse for seeming, like The Rhine Gold, the merest Christmas tomfoolery to shallow specta- tors, is the product of a talent im... ...the less their spontaneous impulses are sophisti- cated by the very stagey traditions which Bayreuth is hand- ing down from the age of Crummles, the b...

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... good day with the hounds. I think I remember hearing that you go there at Christmas, madam.’ ‘Our last Christmas at Earlsfont was a sad meeting for t... ...l superabundance, and really seem to swear we shall admire it, against our traditions of the vegetable, as a poetical splendour. The head of the heire... ... brainless. Banish him your revels and your debatings, pro- hibit him your Christmas, lend no ear either to his panics or his testiness, especially no...

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...elonged to the very atmosphere of a camp, to its indolence, to its ancient traditions. In your own defence, you were obliged to do such things. Beside... ...rd; and such it proved—to his own ruin, as well as that of myriads beside. Christmas arrived; and, a little before that time, courier upon courier cam... ...ar romance. The inimitable grace with which Ovid has delivered these early traditions of human tenderness, blending with human superstition, is notori... ...d as that of Loretto, with the angelic trans- lation of its sanctities: on Christmas morning, it was devoutly believed by all Christendom, that this h... ...on in supposing (and probably enough) that from this account of the desert traditions in Marco Polo was derived Milton’s fine passage in Comus:— ‘Of c... ...he cus- tom amongst German children of making presents to their parents on Christmas Eve, (a custom which he unaccount- ably supposes to be peculiar t...

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............................................................................................................................ 54 POWER THRU SOCIAL TRADIT... ...al ability transcend that of his professors? I find it impossible to accept the Godless materialism that has made some small inroads into our tradit... ...t we must make. Often the choices are made by other people and we follow without much questioning. Sometimes value decisions are based on the tradit... ...x kids and you have only two. I am therefore more prolific or a more competent mother or father. My lawn is better kept than yours. My outdoor Christ... ...for that gloomy rainy day. You might even get stuck at the love level, limiting your care-giving to those closest to you. POWER THRU SOCIAL TRADIT... ...t the clashes between the Orthodox Armenians and the Orthodox Greek priests over cleaning rights at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem at Christ... ...d my law practice, but the temptation is still there. So now I procrastinate on doing my taxes and cleaning the house, and of course doing my Christ...

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...o the day—(April 21st) he was with Jean. Albert Bigelow Paine. Stormfield, Christmas Eve, 11 A.M., 1909. What Is Man and Other Essays 76 Jean is dead... ...irs and sofas; and the un completed surprise was there: in the form of a Christmas tree that was drenched with silver film in a most wonderful way; ... ...thout formalities. And so— I have been to Jean’s parlor. Such a turmoil of Christmas presents for servants and friends! They are everywhere; tables, c... ...day Mrs. Clemens and I used to slip softly into the nursery at midnight on Christmas Eve and look the array of presents over. The children were little... ...have labeled them today. Jean’s mother always worked herself down with her Christmas preparations. Jean did the same yes terday and the preceding day... ...n one of them. There is, it is true, no tradition to this effect, but such traditions as we have about Shakespeare’s occupation between the time of le...

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... her three-day visit 36. Matt and Mary sleep together without sex, travel to Bourne’s 37.Matt and Mary listen as Hattie Beecher defends Appalachian traditions 38. Matt and Mary part, professing their love for one another 39. Combat trainee Morris follows the national debate on the war 40. Morris warms to a fervent description of Air Force ideals 41. Morris, coached b...

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...a fluffy white shroud, winter had surely arrived and with a vengeance. The Christmas season was just two weeks away, and I really didn’t mind the snow... ...eks away, and I really didn’t mind the snow. I’ve always en- joyed a white Christmas because it sets the mood for the holiday season. By this time I w... ... set in. Like a child peering from a window, looking for old Saint Nick on Christmas Eve, I too found myself with my face pressed against the glass sc... ...e Americans. We are all created equal. We may not have the same be- liefs, traditions, or values, but we all stand for one unity of people. President ...

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... – and for that he never failed to apologise, for it went sore against the traditions of his life. You can imagine how he would fare in a novel by Mis... ...se. The canine conscience did not solve the problem with a pound of tea at Christmas. No longer content to pay a flying visit, it was the whole foreno...