Word: rite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Courtroom as religious rite: Apollo--the law--sifts through the disorders of Dionysus--human nature in the wild, where Medea's children and Orestes' mother and Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman all are murdered. To re-establish order, the rational takes the irrational to court. Sometimes the result is itself irrational, but in the drama, you may see for a moment into the society's heart...
...taken only six months for the average American baseball fan to exchange his or her guarded loyalty for lemming-hood. The protests and low attendance figures that greeted players and owners at the beginning of this strike-shortened season have been replaced by the annual rite of pennant fever...
While the council was out on the issue, Harvard undergraduates and professors have again undergone the semi-annual rite...
...biannual rite of shopping period has begun...
...piercing cackle. At a time when some Roman Catholic nuns wear discreet designer clothes, she is resolutely old-fashioned in her ankle-length brown robe and hair-concealing white scapular. The Catholicism she espouses is old-fashioned as well, redolent with devotion to the Virgin Mary and the Latin-rite mass, deeply rooted in the Baltimore Catholicism of the 1940s. Some critics call her "the zinging nun" for her forthright attacks on feminists and other Catholic liberals who, in her view, confuse the faithful and weaken the church by daring to disagree with Pope John Paul II and his bishops...