Word: rite
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traces the rise & fall of Margayya, a proud, overimaginative moneylender who keeps bank each day under a banyan tree. Margayya makes a good living from small loans, but he is not satisfied; he dreams of real wealth. The local priest advises Margayya to woo the gods with a special rite: mix the ashes of a red lotus with milk drawn from a smoke-colored cow. Sure enough, not long after, Margayya meets Dr. Pal, a sociologist who has written a book called Bed-Life, or the Science of Marital Happiness. The first chapters make Margayya blush, but they also make...
Sergei Prokofiev was an established musical revolutionary of 26 when the Bolsheviks spread flame and famine across Russia in 1917. He had outjangled Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in his pagan Scythian Suite, startled St. Petersburg's musical society with the thudding energy of his piano pieces. When he wanted to-as he showed in his Classical Symphony -he could write with sweet simplicity. But he seldom cared to prove it. "I believe," he wrote, "that it is a mistake to favor musical simplification...
...drama, comedy and pageantry that Hollywood could not touch. Critics might find faults in it-the parade was miles too long, the balls were a crashing bore, and there were a few embarrassing performers-but the faults only underlined the fact that this was a great and wonderful rite...
...politicians who govern France gathered in the National Assembly last week to perform the familiar French rite of political execution. The appointed victim this time was Premier Antoine Pinay, who in nine months and two weeks had given France its most stable economy since the war (TIME...
...congregations function in slightly different ways. Indian Hill holds Presbyterian and Episcopal services on different Sundays; St. Barnabas' uses a simplified liturgy at all its services. New members are received into both denominations, i.e., the bishop lays his hands on the confirmand in the Episcopal rite of confirmation, and the pastor then extends "the right hand of Christian fellowship," Presbyterian fashion. Both churches give part of their revenues to Episcopal and Presbyterian church agencies...