Word: rite
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There's another rite of Spring here at fair Harvard, one which all students can participate in vicariously if not in fact. It's called crew, and each Spring the he-men amongst us are out on the sparkling Charles in their sleek craft pulling valiantly to preserve the glory of Harvard in the face of competition from other schools...
...Nowadays young people develop more quickly than they did in my day," says the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 83, the former Archbishop of Canterbury. In a new book, Touching on Christian Truth, Dr. Fisher proposes to help the young avoid the sin of fornication by reviving the ancient rite of betrothal. "It would have to take place with the full consent of the two families," he wrote. "It would, in fact, be a sacramental act, made, as indeed marriage itself is, essentially by the two persons themselves. After that, sexual intercourse between them would not be regarded...
...ends in a tie, has strategic importance. (As against baseball, basketball, or hockey, with their interminable schedules, where a single game means next to nothing.) Then too, as the world becomes more and more secularized, the Sunday pro games have a nice liturgical quality about them: a common rite performed before enthusiastic crowds-no empty pews here!-all over the country, in the tranquillity of the Sabbath...
Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps (Columbia); Debussy: Pel leas et Melisande; 3 LPs (Columbia). Under the baton of that red-blooded logician, Pierre Boulez, all is rite in Stravinsky's polysavage world and all is light in Debussy's interplay between symbol and reality...
...garb or be required to live in convents or special communities. Beyond maintaining their virginity, they may if they wish function as assistants in the missionary field, in line with their interests and abilities. According to the Sacred Congregation of Divine Worship, which announced the Vatican plan, the new rite is "a mark of esteem for women whose dignity is sometimes offended in our society, which is often dominated by vulgar hedonism...