Word: rite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spring-rite on your father's lawn...
...Part rite and part romp, the summer music festival attests the ever-widening U.S. interest in the arts. The quality of performance varies from aspiring and disciplined musicianship to the routine drudging of bored hacks. The classics sometimes share the scene with jazz and folk singing, often done with verve and style. There is even a hot-weather blend of classical and popular that might be dubbed popsical music. Herewith, a sampling of some distinctive U.S. festivals...
...center where laymen meet for intensive study and lectures on the relevance of faith to modern life, from the morality of expense-account living to the morality of strike tactics. Stockwood is encouraging putting off baptism until a child has some grasp of its meaning, and also favors "full-rite visitations," in which baptism, confirmation and First Communion are all administered to the same recipient on the same...
...Other archaeologists have turned up shallow dishes cut from the tops of human skulls, as well as a huge red and yellow bowl containing human thigh-and hipbones-suggesting that the Teotihuacanos may have practiced cannibalism. Teotihuacanos also practiced autosacrifice to Chicome Xochitl, a god of flowers. In this rite the worshiper slashed his own finger or eyelids, allowed the blood to soak into porous paper, which was then burned in small clay bowls...
...backyards and on beaches, wherever the sun shines brightly, multitudes of people have begun to stretch out like so many sausages on a griddle-all for the sake of a handsome, "healthy" tan. This rite of summer is warming, relaxing and so socially desirable that few sun worshipers heed the constant words of caution from doctors. Despite its appearance of health, a suntan apparently has little physical value; too much sun over a long period of time may permanently damage the skin...