Word: rite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHRISTMAS is part of the flow. It's the catalyst that picks us up and dumps us into the next state of existence, winter. It's the ceremonial rite of staying-indoorsness...
...waited for a reply while all sorts of rumors rose in Hartford and Murphy's office staff drooped in depression. Phones jangled. Strangers asked questions. Murphy kept mum. At 2:28 p.m. the call came through: "Humphrey stays in Detroit overnight." Scrap the airport greeting. Organize a daytime rite. At 3 p.m. came another call: "Humphrey arrives in Hartford at 11 a.m." Scrap the housewives. Goodbye, Connecticut General. A fuming Bailey reached Humphrey again and growled: "You're going to stand up 300 women and 2,000 insurance people because you want to sleep one more hour?" Then...
...FESTIVAL. "The Rite of Spring." Documentary of Los Angeles Philharmonic Conductor Zubin Mehta, filmed during rehearsals and performance of Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring...
...example, Holden got word that a circumcision rite would take place at a nearby encampment of Samburu warriors. Rousing his men at 4 a.m., he led them on foot through several miles of country overrun with predators. The crew arrived in time to catch the Samburus reeling into a catatonic frenzy. Then the tribal elder drew his knife. The cameraman closed in so tight that he got blood on his camera. And Bill Holden, who, as one Wolper man put it, had played it all along like "the essential Hemingway man," admitted that suddenly he grew "weak in the knees...
...darkness fell over the abandoned pineapple estate in southern Malaysia, 50 miles from Singapore, police moved in and took up positions among the trees. Thus ensconced, they witnessed a strange rite. On an open-air stage, blue-clad men and women in their 20s sang, recited the sayings of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, and performed acrobatic dance versions of his most intrepid deeds before a rapt audience of other youths. The police waited until the performance had ended, then moved in quickly and arrested 123 performers and members of the audience. The pineapple estate was a clandestine Communist Party school...