Word: rite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subdued but Commencement is still one of New England's grandest spectaculars. What passes for traditional academic pomp mingled with joyous celebration is just as much kindergarten as college: once a year, now for the 312th time, the boys of Harvard are playing a game they call a festive rite, a game interrupted in three centuries only by a smallpox epedemic...
...Around midnight Thursday, the hemorrhage began again, and then the spreading disease caused peritonitis-inflammation of the abdominal lining. In the morning the Pope accepted the last Communion (viaticum) from the hand of his confessor, Monsignor Giuseppe Cavagna. Monsignor Peter van Lierde, Sacristan of the Holy Palaces, performed the rite of extreme unction, anointing John's body with holy oil. Afterward, John called Monsignor Cavagna to his bedside, reported L'Osservatore Romano, and "in a clear, firm voice the august Pontiff confirmed his great love for the church and all souls and again offered his life...
Next week Nolan's latest paintings go on display at the Marlborough Gallery in London, where Nolan has had one triumph after another. The U.S. will get a chance to know him in the next twelve weeks, when London's Royal Ballet tours the country with The Rite of Spring, for which he designed the sets...
...last week. After the bitterest winter in 50 years, daffodils were blooming in London's parks, and government officials reported with relief that the unemployment rate had dropped, from 3.9% to 3.1%, for the first time in more than six months. Their jubilation was short-lived. In a rite of spring such as Britain has not witnessed since the Depression, more than 5,000 jobless workers converged on London to protest their plight, touching off an ugly, rock-throwing battle at the very door of Parliament...
...this point, Genet's play dissolves hideously into myth: the immortal myth of the new king who conquers the old king, and then celebrates his marriage to the Mother Goddess with a rite of self-castration. The rebel leader comes to the brothel, buys the illusion that he is the strongman, and at the climax of his impersonation mutilates himself. To delete this episode is to castrate the drama. The moviemakers delete it and the play ends not with a scream but a snigger...