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celebration

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Celebration is a musical with a book and lyrics by Tom Jones and music by Harvey Schmidt . The musical fable, employing a nearly bare stage, explores the contrasts between youth and old age, innocence and corruption, love and ambition, and poverty and wealth. ...

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n. a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event [syn: jubilation ] any joyous diversion [syn: festivity ] the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual; "the celebration of marriage" [syn: solemnization ...

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Population (2000): 2736 Housing Units (2000): 1093 Land area (2000): 10.669265 sq. miles (27.633268 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.028096 sq. miles (0.072769 sq. km) Total area (2000): 10.697361 sq. miles (27.706037 sq. km) FIPS code: 11285 Located within: ...

Usage examples of celebration.

Year 551, we offer up praises to God, His Son and the Holy Spirit for the success of the enterprise, and admonish all loyal subjects within the bounds of the Empire to join with us in this celebration, for surely we are delivered for the purpose of Christian vindication throughout the world.

From some dim adytum the recorded carols of a private celebration could be heard, and some laughter.

Not only had she been made a widow during her twentieth anniversary celebration, but she and her daughter were locked in cages, kept like slaves for the amusement of a couple of demented perverts.

A few years ago distinguished military men from abroad came here to participate in the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the surrender of Yorktown by Lord Cornwallis.

But usually those of us who die die in the ashram, with all of the cluster around them, and it is a time for great loving and celebration.

Candela and Finch offices last Friday evening, part of the bicentenary celebrations.

Nixon, the celebration of the Bicentennial, the presidency of Carter, all aimed at restoration.

Well, that part of the plan collapsed with Watergate, so we decided to make the Bicentennial a celebration of the new Republican leadership.

No doubt the old cheery publicity is a little embarrassing to the two most concerned, and the old marriage customs, the singing of the bride and bridegroom to their nuptial couch, the frank jests, the country horse-play, must have fretted the souls of many a lover before Shelley, who, it will be remembered, resented the choral celebrations of his Scotch landlord and friends by appearing at his bedroom door with a brace of pistols.

When he reached home, his people held a great celebration in his honor and brought him many gifts, the loot of the cities he had burned and the ships he had captured, one bringing a rich armor, another a necklace of gold and hyacinth, a third a cloak of byssus, and so on.

Communities free to convene conventions will be also meeting this year during the Centenary celebrations.

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Shrine in anticipation of having it finished for the July 9 Centenary Celebrations of His Martyrdom.

The world-wide Centenary celebrations crowning these enterprises were undertaken in such perilous circumstances and carried out despite the formidable obstacles engendered through prolongation of hostilities.

Community during the two-year interval separating us from the Centenary celebrations of the prophetic mission of the Founder of our Faith.