Word: rite
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week that ancient advertising rite was celebrated in Variety's 53rd annual anniversary issue, a hefty (2 lbs., 6 oz.), 290-page publishing phenomenon (457 different ads) representing the combined efforts of ten operatives who spent a hectic six weeks putting the bite on showfolk...
...suddenly in the last half century millions of Americans have become convinced that they or their children will only be pseudo-adults without a four-year apprenticeship to these same scholars. College is well on its way to becoming an industrial puberty rite, complete with its ordeal by terror (the examination) and its ritualized search for a vision by means of self-torture (5000 word papers written...
...similarity to Christian sacrament won't carry you to the core of Oedipus, either, for Sophocles' drama is above all else a pagan rite of purification. It is a religious outlook worthy of general reconsideration, and the present film will show you not only what the Athenians saw on stage twenty-five centuries ago but what they saw in the world and the cosmos as well. The masks of the actors bear a bizarre and wholly appropriate resemblance to the grotesque faces of the magnified reptiles and insects seen in the Brattle's introductory short subject. Tanya Moiseiwitsch has provided...
Gregory Peter XV Cardinal Agagianian, 63, Patriarch of Cilicia of the Armenians, an Oriental rite communion of the Roman Catholic Church with headquarters near Beirut. Generally considered one of the best brains in the church, Agagianian was appointed by Pope Pius XII to succeed the late Cardinal Stritch as chief of all Catholic missions, is the church's top expert on the Mideast and Communism. His Russian-Armenian origin, which militates against his choice, in another respect weighs in his favor: his election would greatly impress Russians and other Eastern peoples...
...Dress Rite. In Walhalla, S.C., 37 members of the Rider Mountain Pentecostal Fire Baptized Holiness Church went to court asking for the reinstatement of their pastor, the Rev. Haskell Lee, who had been unfrocked for wearing a necktie in the pulpit...