Word: rite
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...becomes the transmitter, not the information. This may be the only way of coping with the fact boom: personalizing information by identifying the story with the teller. Being talked about gives the politician, the athlete, the artist a legitimacy. The celebrant was once a person who performed a religious rite; now the celebrant is the creator of the celebrity. It is not strange that television broadcasters should be thought of, by some, as presidential possibilities...
...biggest change is the draft's provision for alternative versions of the central rites of the church: the Holy Eucharist, Daily Morning and Evening Prayer, and the Burial of the Dead. The first version, called Rite One, remains fairly close to the 1928 Prayer Book, though in many instances the language has been simplified. Rite Two differs sharply in phrase and form from the old services. God is no longer addressed as "Thou" or "Thee" but familiarly as "You." In the Lord's Prayer, "And lead us not into temptation" is rendered flatly as "Save us from...
...closest to its center. Writers like Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, he suggests, employed traditional literary terms to evoke the "actualities" of war. Sunsets and sunrises, rising out of the Pastoral, take on a new and heightened significance in the trenches when used to describe the stand-to--a rite in which everybody on the front line took up arms and stood ready for the attacks that came at dawn or dusk...
This bizarre rite is the merchant's way of thanking the lion. The lettuce and the tangerine are purely symbolic; however, the red envelope is full of money, money used to defray the expense of the $400 papier mache lion head, imported from Hong Kong, and the Kwangtung, China, fireworks...
...Chilly Rite. Located atop nearly two miles of ice, at an elevation of more than 9,000 ft., the base is a unique high-altitude observatory that makes possible a variety of important geophysical measurements. These include soundings of the upper atmosphere, monitoring of auroral displays ("the southern lights"), and other observations that may answer many questions about the earth's day-to-day weather and overall climate. In a new experiment, for instance, scientists from the University of California at Davis are seeking to learn precisely how the polar region-a so-called heat sink-sheds the excess...