Word: rite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parishioners of Christ Church in Maidstone, a small town in southeast England. She baptizes babies, conducts funerals, comforts the sick in their homes and in hospital beds, and leads her congregation in prayer in the small, modern brick church. But as a woman, she is forbidden to celebrate the rite of Holy Communion for her flock of 40 parishioners. That central act of worship can be performed only by male clerics in the Church of England, who occasionally neglect even to show up for services. Says Williams: "If I don't have someone there on Sundays to celebrate Communion...
Some Presidents, sexologists and Nobel Prize winners have all experienced the quintessential rite of senior year: the honors thesis. Bleary-eyed, sick of coffee and immune to NoDoz, some of Harvard's famous graduates have toiled day and night only to produce a large paper that has no bearing on their later life. Others have turned their theses into books or have drawn upon the methodology and ideas in later research and projects...
...rite and techno-trend vocabulary meet in "programming," or getting the most out of your talisman. One West Coast formula for doing so goes this way: first, "clear" the stone by washing it in ocean water (in a pinch, salt water will do). Then leave it outside for at least 24 hours so that rays of the sun and moon may penetrate it. A quicker, high-tech method is to pass an audiocassette eraser over each side of the crystal for half a minute. To program, after the crystal has been cleared, hold it in both hands and blow...
After performing the bizarre rite on Beacon Hill, Rupert said, "There's a little blood and pain...but no risk...
Therese (played with fierce clarity by Catherine Mouchet) was one of four Martin sisters in the convent at Lisieux. The film portrays it as a true community, a beautiful sisterhood. For novices like Therese, every act of abasement is another wondrous rite of initiation into a high-spirited sorority of love and sacrifice. For the older nuns, the convent is not a ^ prison but an enchanted castle that surrounds them with images of their beloved. All the sisters find beauty in duty, fulfillment in filth. One nun, ministering to lepers, consumes flakes of a diseased man's skin...