Word: rite
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then their land, then even their daughter to the alien customs of immigrating Navajos. The movie is climaxed in an effective juxtaposition of the old and the new; the last of the Snopes attempts to shear their few remaining sheep while an 11,000 man, three-day Navajo fertility rite sweeps over the fields. Only an act of Congress finally saves the settlers...
...Kelly and Judy Stewart, twin daughters born last month to Gloria Hatrick McLean Stewart and James Stewart, Hollywood's most eligible bachelor until he married at 41, joined their parents and Mrs. Stewart's two sons by her previous marriage, Ronald and Michael, for a traditional movieland rite: the first family publicity stills...
...Cage (by Jerome Robbins; music by Igor Stravinsky), the most important of the premieres, tells a story at once terrible and absorbing. The dancers seemed to represent female insects who introduce the young, forlorn Novice (Nora Kaye) to the mating rite and to the harsh insect code which requires the death of the male partner. Robbins' savage but striking ballet caused some seat-squirming in the audience. The big question: Is it really a tale of insects, or a parable of life among human beings...
...mother against daughter. Wives are being handsomely rewarded for informing against their husbands, and children are organized into "eavesdropping teams." Marriage, except for the purely functional reason of procreation, is officially discouraged everywhere and permitted only after long investigation of the couple's political reliability. The wedding rite, which once consisted of bowing before the elders of the family, is now usually accomplished by bowing three times to a picture of Mao Tse-tung. Newlywed party members are permitted to live together for one week only, thereafter sleep each at his own place of work. Divorce...
Harry Truman has had his picture taken with so many visiting firemen that White House cameramen have reduced the rite to clockwork routine. Not a moment was lost when he walked out to the White House rose garden one day last week to be photographed with a group of United States Attorneys and their families. He took a place in the front row, the photographers lifted their cameras, and the visitors quickly stiffened and stood looking as though they were about to be squirted with a garden hose...