Some prefer to recite the tiqqun lel Shavuʿot ("Shavuot night service"), an anthology of passages from Scripture and the Mishna (the authoritative compilation of the Oral Law).
Rather than grappling with the truly challenging, foundational questions, Aczel, I discovered, preferred to recite middle-brow explanations that might give consolation to people of faith but that never really come close to achieving a reconciliation of science and faith.
Gould, or Professor Seagull, as he was sometimes called, was a familiar figure in the Greenwich Village of the 40's, a diminutive, shabby but well-spoken panhandler who cadged money for drinks ("donations to the Joe Gould Fund," he preferred to call it) by reciting poetry and performing screeching sea gull imitations.
Others prefer to say "Om" or recite the Koran.
Here the lovers, two teenage cousins, are fiercely chaste, preferring "to talk and recite poetry" all night, after which they part "with no suspicion of indecency attaching to them".
Some prefer to paint, sing, draw, film, dance, record, recite, invent, experiment, photograph, yell.
Ms. Lagarde prefers to make light of any attacks on her, reciting one of her favorite quotes, from Eleanor Roosevelt.
I'd prefer to skip these services because it makes me uncomfortable to recite and sing religious messages that I disagree with, especially when everyone except my wife will believe that I'm being genuine.
In unseen footage released by The Mirror newspaper which was filmed by the BBC but later edited out of the aired programme, Clarkson can be seen reciting a children's counting rhyme while selecting which car he prefers.
While many couples still prefer traditional settings, with a service performed by a priest, rabbi or minister, others opt to recite their vows aboard a ship or in a hot-air balloon.
