Word: rite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Warning: The government has recalled nearly 10 million portable mesh playpens. Toddlers can strangle on pacifier strings or loose clothing that catches on the playpens' protruding rivets. Problem brands include Bilt-Rite, Playskool and Kolcraft...
...musical devices. An overly-dramatic orchestra might have felt compelled to dilute parts of the Symphonia Domestica into a pre-Stravinsky and Debussy prototype. Many arpeggios sound very much like those of Debussy. And it is true that some percussion lines sound so much like The Rite of Spring that a timpani-player might have to hold himself back in order to play it as Strauss intended...
...then Iwound up going to Harvard...and after awhile itbecame one of those things where I couldn't missit," Hurley says. "I remember telling my wifeyears ago that if she was sick on that day, wellthat's too bad, I'd have to go anyway. It became areligious rite...
...Hurleys' rite began in 1910, when EugeneSr. attended his first Harvard-Yale game. Theelder Hurley went The Game every year until 1968,when doctor's orders kept him at home. But thedoctor might not be able to keep Hurley theYounger from watching The Game...
...mean to complain. My rite of passage is not whether I will survive or not--I am sure that my Gortex-lined everything will thwart any threats to my health. The pressing question is whether I am going to want to survive or not. Is the East Coast worth all of this effort, money and worrying? At least I have four years to decide...