What I felt above all was the social and emotional value of food – pleasure before pretentiousness – and that even the high-end places had deep connections with traditions, enhanced by the edible riches of the two seas – Mediterranean and Atlantic – and the sun-baked land of the south.
"John had very direct connection with the tradition," said Barry Bergey, director of folk and traditional arts for the N.E.A. "He's one of those figures that bridges the great divide between contemporary culture and his own personal heritage, dating back to the 1930s and '40s".
But many loyally cherish their connection with The Tradition.
Among the features I noted were his sense of idiomatic gesture; the fluidity with which the groupings of his dance kept changing; the subtle sense of dramatic poetry that created situations, meanings, forms, worlds, claiming the audience's attention and feelings without spelling out any immediate interpretation; and his connection with the tradition of older choreographic masterworks.
However you decide to enrich your seder, consider that it is the connection with our tradition and with our families that make Passover meaningful.
The Beauty of Xiaohe mummy not only has features that seem alien to the region, but she was also buried in a style that has little connection with local traditions of later millenniums.
It reflects the reality of all major waves of immigration to the United States, in which new arrivals maintain connection with the traditions and cultures of their places of origin, sometimes for a very long time.
An advantage of using the focus group discussion (FGD) to collect original data is the connection with oral traditions, which makes it preferable when participants have little or no educational background.
"But if celibacy is of apostolic origins and has important connections" with church tradition, Cardinal Stafford went on, "then this experience in the U.S. is not going to undermine that".
