Word: rite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Buying required books may not be an unpleasant rite of the new term, but it is certainly a financial strain. Students who build their libraries discriminately often try to cope with the high costs by reselling texts they no longer need and buying second-hand copies of presently required texts. At present this means facing the unpleasant experience of being offered 20 to 30 per cent of the retail price they originally paid for a book, and charged 67 to 75 percent for a correspondingly well-preserved text...
...Latin America's biggest nations, the prospects for foreign investors are steadily deteriorating. In Chile, where strikes in the U.S.-owned copper mines have become an annual rite, and taxes run as high as 81% of profits, Anaconda and Kennecott have scrapped expansion programs totaling $325 million. In Argentina, where the gross national product actually dropped 10% last year, some 35 U.S. companies have recently canceled investment plans. New investment in Brazil has been discouraged by a law that prohibits foreign companies from withdrawing any profits above 10% of invested capital and by expropriation of an International Telephone & Telegraph...
Electra. Greek drama was a religious rite, and the drama cannot fully be felt unless the religion is believed, but Director Michael Cacoyannis has managed to derive a beautiful and sometimes moving piece of cinema from the play by Euripides...
...most magnificent scenery on the planet. What's more, the hunting scenes-notably one in which an old wolf elegantly cuts a calf out of its herd and then leaps in savagely to slash its hamstrings-have the beauty and the horror that inevitably attend a blood rite...
Accordingly, the government is now also using a far milder de-oathing rite. In fact, it often is more like a civil;,service exam than something out of The'-Golden Bough. Along with a Kikuyu district officer, the de-oathing teams comprise several recorders, who write down confessions, and a court of five tribal elders. Those who come forward to renounce the L.F.A. are asked eleven questions ("When did you take the oath?" "Who are the leaders?"), then are fined an average of 5 or 10 shillings by the elders...