OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about attending three observances of Christmas in Bethlehem in Jordanian Jerusalem: the Western, the Greek and the Armenian.
Given this media environment, the initial impulse behind Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's decision to exclude original speeches from the ground zero observances was understandable.
By Christopher Rand The New Yorker, December 26 , 1959P. 29 OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about attending three observances of Christmas in Bethlehem in Jordanian Jerusalem: the Western, the Greek and the Armenian.
The New Yorker, January 2 , 1960P. 50 OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about spending Christmas in Jordanian Jerusalem & attending three observances of it in Bethlehem: the Latin on Dec. 25, the Greek on Jan . 7and the Armenian on Jan . 19
By Christopher Rand The New Yorker, January 2 , 1960P. 50 OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about spending Christmas in Jordanian Jerusalem & attending three observances of it in Bethlehem: the Latin on Dec. 25, the Greek on Jan . 7and the Armenian on Jan . 19
Niyama (The five "observances"): Śauca (purity, clearness of mind, speech and body), Santosha (contentment, acceptance of others and of one's circumstances), Tapas (persistent meditation, perseverance, austerity), Svādhyāya (study of self, self-reflection, study of Vedas), and Ishvara-Pranidhana (contemplation of God/Supreme Being/True Self).
At home, we have one observance.
Within the Christian year, the prayer book shaped the day by boiling down the seven medieval monastic daily offices into two simplified observances, matins and evensong.
(As one etiquette writer of the eighteen-eighties observed, "Not even a saint could, from 'inner consciousness' alone, evolve a conception of the thousand and one social observances of modern fashionable life").
