Word: rite
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...devotion to the works of Richard Wagner is a worldwide cult, then a performance of The Ring of the Nibelung is that religion's ultimate rite: a fervent emotional and aesthetic observance. Any opera house that is able to produce the Ring cycle -- four long, mythic music dramas, based on old Norse and German sagas -- is assured of a sellout. Audiences travel across continents to submit themselves to the Ring's thrilling embrace. Among Wagner's many other theatrical gifts was his ability to build a climax at the end of every act, so that the audience is continually swept...
...become a rite, and wrong, of summer. For the third time in 14 years, the baseball players' union has called for a midseason strike. This one, barring a lapse into common sense between players and club owners, begins Aug. 12. It could be brief, a blip in the sport's troubled labor history. Some think it will be brutal. As historian Bill James wrote recently, "We may be nearing the end of major league baseball...
...regalia and ornaments placed around the 1,700-year-old corpse of the Sipan Lord and found in one of the other tombs gave the ceremonial slayings a grisly new meaning. From his attire, he was recognized as the Warrior Priest and the principal figure in representations of a rite of human sacrifice that held great significance for the Moche. Adorned in gold and with glistening bells, beads and ornaments that shivered at the slightest movement, he must have impressed his subjects as more blindingly radiant than the sun overhead...
Opera fans, too, struggle to get to Glyndebourne, but tickets have always been virtually unobtainable. Much of the small house, 40 miles south of London, is presold to corporate and individual sponsors. For these wealthy people, an evening at Glyndebourne is a social rite, a rare chance to behave like a true English eccentric. Men dress conventionally in black tie. But the women present a fashion show rarely witnessed in the late 20th century: long gowns printed with cabbage roses and exotic shawls that must be relics of Britain's imperial past. For many in the Glyndebourne audience, the evening...
James is a Stride Rite scholar who has workedwith a variety of community organizations duringher years at Hravard, including PresidentClinton's Summer of Service program, theCorporation for National Community Service, YouthBuild and the Mission Hill program at PhillipsBooks House...