Word: rite
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...one’s] sins to be saved and receive the Holy Spirit.” This stance opposes the typical Christian view of baptism as a symbolic ritual but not necessarily a requirement for salvation. Even those already baptized in another Christian church must go through the BCC rite...
It’s become an annual rite of spring that a Harvard senior will blow away everyone away to start the season. Last year it was javelin superstar Chris Clever ’01. This time it was co-captain Kobie Fuller...
...this frivolity couched in academic discourse is, of course, the advanced version of the ultimate high school rite of passage—sex ed class. But there doesn’t seem to be much ground-breaking work done at that level either. Students at Cambridge Ringe and Latin School say sex ed down Cambridge Street is basically a biology class with “some warnings about STDs.” According to CRLS senior Leslie Braga, “The sex ed offered at Ringe and Latin is pretty much the same thing we all got in fifth...
...standard postgraduate journey for 19th century young English ladies and gentlemen was the Grand Tour of Europe, a lengthy buffet of the best art, architecture and?for the men?wenches that the Continent had to offer. Today's overmedicated, under-careered university graduates have come up with their own rite of passage: backpacking through Asia. It might be more of a slouch than a Grand Tour, but at least it's edgy...
...Valery Gergiev/Kirov Orchestra The Rite of Spring (Philips) Igor Stravinsky's clamorous ballet score has now received a quintessentially Russian recording: violent, brazen, full of all the blunt power of passionate peasant ritual. Gergiev has been making a big impression as principal guest conductor of New York City's Metropolitan Opera, and this CD leaves no doubt...