And the Nation's optimism, captured in the promise of personal resurrection, echoed the ethos of a society that has hallowed self-invention and the born-again experience.
Still, has hallowed Augusta National become refuge and playground for a tiny minority of odd lefties, a golf species once so disparaged that instructors routinely forced them to switch sides and play right-handed?
Of course, one reason why McGwire's chase enthralled the nation was that baseball, by virtue of its age and history, has hallowed records and legends (and dead guys) that capture the imagination the way few other sports can match.
"The death of John Brown would thenceforth hallow the scaffold," she wrote, "even as the death of Christ had hallowed the cross".
Generations of Americans have hallowed this soil, making it one of the most visited Civil War battlefields, and Mississippi tourism officials hope its popularity grows at time of flag decals and patriotic song.
Each day, Deng slips away from the daily chaos of the southern capital, Juba, to the sanctuary he has cultivated: Nimra Tilata, the hallowed basketball court near the Nile River.
Not surprisingly, Friend's detractors — and there are at least as many as admirers — claim that he has watered down and commercialized a hallowed tradition for his own gain.
Since 1984, as president of Blue Note, the hallowed jazz label, he has built a roster that includes Cassandra Wilson, Dianne Reeves, Chucho Valdés and Wynton Marsalis (whom he signed to Columbia and later brought to Blue Note).
Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy.
Homer's poem tells of Odysseus's decade-long attempt to return to his home island of Ithaca – a "man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy".
It had been a long road, including stints in industry and as a research associate, but he had arrived at hallowed ground: the tenure track.
