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Pilgrimages to Nowhere?

Pilgrimages to Nowhere?
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In one of my trips back home after college, I remember my mother telling me, between half-embarrassed chuckles, how in high school she had caught herself genuflecting as she entered the row leading to her seat at the movie theater. My father, who was also there, confessed sheepishly to having had the same experience on a date at the same age.

Thomas Harrington
Thomas Harrington
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Thomas S. Harrington, Senior Brownstone Scholar and Brownstone Fellow, is professor emeritus of Hispanic studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he taught for 24 years. His research is on Iberian movements of national identity and contemporary Catalan culture. His essays are published at Words in The Pursuit of Light.