Word: rite
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spooky and funny. And so is Alexander's unshakable belief, stoked by Otto, that the fate of the planet depends on his "lying with" the ethereal Maria. Is she Eve or Lilith, Mary or Mary Magdalene? Or just a maid who understands that even a dotty master deserves the rite-of-last-night? Like any man trying to take any woman to bed, Alexander offers her a two-faced come-on: If we make love we can create a new world; if we don't make love I'll kill myself. Out of sympathy, she accedes to his plea...
...cannot pray together, namely, to make a common prayer," he explained, "but we can be present while others pray." That, in fact, is what occurred. During the morning, each faith met for separate devotions in and around Assisi, and when all groups later gathered in the piazza, no interreligious rite was used; individual delegates gave their own invocations...
...shift in the consensus among cognoscenti has just been made ^ especially clear. This is the season of "40 Under 40," architecture's cliquish, roughly once-a-decade (1941, 1966, 1976 and this year) initiation rite, in which several dozen younger Americans were declared the best and the brightest of their generation in a recent exhibition at New York City's International Design Center. Although the Architectural League of New York started the tradition, Interiors magazine was the 1986 sponsor, and Architect Andrew MacNair (who wound up on the list himself) oversaw the selection process. The last time...
This cocky Yankee fan, accustomed to victory as a rite of fall, began to understand the uniqueness--also depth--of Boston's special pain. Not like Cubs pain (never to get there at all), or Phillies pain (lousy teams, but they did take it all)--but the deepest possible anguish of running a long and hard course, again and again, to the very end, and then self-destructing one inch from the finish line...
...something of a rite of fall. The foliage takes a turn through a magnificent spectrum of red and orange and green. The apples ripen. Students go to Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts to look at the leaves...