Word: rite
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...Ballet. Now they present “Back: Magnificat, Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass.” Reserved seating, tickets range from $18-$39. Or try student rush and pay $5 cash at the door, but get there 1 hour early. 3 p.m. Sanders Theatre. (ECMV)MUSIC | Brahms, Dvorak, Stravinsky Rite of Spring
...last week’s, “The Rite Words in the Rote Order: Poetry in a Life,” breathless first-years and English-department luminaries alike were captivated by Heaney’s deft weaving of lighthearted anecdotes with serious exploration of poetry’s role in the everyday...
...team racing, three boats from one team compete against three from another head-to-head, and the team with the lowest combined score wins. Team racing, usually a rite of the spring season, places a premium on a team’s strategy, tactics and experience...
...violence in Iraq threatens one of the world's oldest Christian communities, dating back 2,000 years. The population includes Chaldean Assyrians (Eastern-rite Catholics who recognize the Pope's authority); Assyrians, who form an independent church; Syrian Catholics; and Armenian Catholics. Under Saddam, Christians coexisted more or less amicably with the Muslim majority. Easter services were broadcast on state television, and Christians were allowed to own and operate liquor stores...
...what, precisely, is the purpose of a non-religious funeral? Adhering to Judeo-Christian principles, funerals in both countries used to be predictable. Between prayers and hymns, a clergyman spoke briefly about the departed before commending his or her soul to God. Change flowed from the secularizing of another rite of passage: weddings. Troubled that the only option available to couples who didn't wish to marry in a church was a legalistic ceremony performed by a pokerfaced official in a registry office, Australian Attorney-General Lionel Murphy in 1973 launched the Civil Marriage Celebrant Program, which soon gave couples...