Word: rite
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musical explorations of Igor Stravinsky, e.g., The Rite of Spring, once got him branded as a wild-eyed futurist. Long since overtaken on the innovation front, he has for many years now been burrowing back into the musical past-but as an explorer still...
...week's end, second thoughts were beginning to be voiced. Letters to the editors asked: "Have they no pity for our beloved Queen?" The Evening News inquired: "Need we, in pursuit of a desire to witness every moment of the rite of crowning, make this harsh demand?" And the Daily Express added solemnly: "What short memories people have! Only a few months ago, we mourned a King who wore himself out in our service." British televiewers were resigning themselves to nothing more than long-distance glimpses of the processions and ceremonies of their Queen's coronation...
Suttee, the old Hindu custom of widow's suicide on the funeral pyre, has been banned in India since 1829; today it occurs rarely and then only in inaccessible villages in backward regions. No one had expected to see the rite performed in the large, well-kept Rajasthan capital of Jaipur (pop. 175,000). One day last week Shroff Ballabhdas, a prosperous banker and coin appraiser of Jaipur, died. His fair and dainty widow Chhimi, 35, mother of five children, put on her many jewels, donned her finest mauve silk sari and announced that she would throw herself...
...crowd flocked to performances of Der Rosenkavalier, were slower to buy up seats for Hindemith's more modern Mathis der Mahler. They cheered for Eduard van Beinum and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra when it played The Rite of Spring and for Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet's new Reflection, liked Tyrone Guthrie's production of an 18th century ballad opera, The Highland Fair...
...British Crown Colony of Kenya, while 3,000 coal-black tribesmen, huddled in a kraal, watched in awe, a goat was slowly beaten to death and buried alongside a virgin ewe. After that ancient rite, supposedly strong magic against evil, an official representative of the Great White Queen Across the Waters pronounced a solemn curse against the Mau-Mau. The Mau-Mau (rhymes with yoyo) is a native secret society which has lately been worrying the British. London is afraid that the Mau-Mau might plunge Britain's East African empire into guerrilla war, and turn Kenya into another...