Word: rite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moslem Music. At the same time, it raised other problems. They found voice among the Middle Eastern patriarchs of Eastern Rite Catholicism, whose hierarchies are at best weak minorities maintaining delicate balance between antagonistic Jews and Moslems. "If we take the matter up, we shall have to face the music," warned Stephanos I Sidarouss, Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria (and neighbor of Nasser...
...mythology, essential to the twentieth-century American funeral rite has grown up--or rather has been built up step by step--to justify the peculiar customs surrounding the disposal of our dead... Gradually, almost imperceptibly, over the years the funeral men have constructed their own grotesque cloud-cuckooland where the trappings of Gracious Living are transformed, as in a nightmare, into the trappings of Gracious Dying... The emphasis is one the same desirable qualities that we have all been schooled to look for in our daily search for excellence: comfort, durability, beauty, craftsmanship." From THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH...
FRANK W. RITZMAN New York City All Rite...
...Your article on low-calorie soft drinks [Aug. 9] was unfortunately incomplete-you omitted mentioning the bestseller in the field. The big news, as everybody in the industry knows, is Diet-Rite Cola-by far the biggest seller and most widely distributed. Diet-Rite Cola, alone, at present projections, will sell in 1963 the 50,000,000 cases you predicted for the entire industry. Parent Royal Crown Cola Co. already has more than 360 bottlers producing this product...
...early Christians was a simple commemorative meal, at which worshipers ate bread and drank wine over which a priest had repeated Jesus' words at the Last Supper. Each local church developed its own customs and ceremonies to surround these acts, but in the Middle Ages the rite performed in Rome became the model for the entire Western church. Gradually the Mass became a mysterious rite, celebrated in a language not understood by the congregation. Prayers once recited by the congregation were reserved to the priest and his assistants...