Word: rite
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Although the Harvard golf team could not get out to the course yesterday, the rain did not prevent that rite known as the first swing of spring from taking place as scheduled. Undaunted by the pelting rain and driven snow, Spence Fitzgibbons, one of the captains of the golf team, found a suitably muddy patch of turf and surrounded by a tatterdemalion group of caddies and onlookers proceeded to tee up his ball and waggle his driver in preparation...
...woods and lugged them home on car fenders without too much supervision. For many of them, the deer season was the only chance each year of really getting free of feminine domestication to hunt, drink and rough it, a combination of Boy Scoutery and male blood rite. In New Jersey, for a brief period, deer hunting also became a form of semi-legalized mayhem as unqualified hunters, often as loaded as the weapons they carried, took to the woods with buckshot, and, along with their deer, managed to kill a fair number of cows-and fellow sportsmen...
...table with somebody in the same business from Denver and New York and they learn how much they have in common, I think that helps jell a nation. I really do." A convention can be a profession's jungle drums, an industry's family reunion, a young person's rite of passage into the adult world of commercial or professional comradeship. A convention can also be a fresh opportunity to display talent, knowledge, oratorical skill or sales records, to reaffirm one's wealth and worthiness in the eyes of the world. No wonder 26 million Americans this year have hastened...
...same sort of alienation that led the 900 cultists to their deaths--and he may, or may not, be right. But we should not wait 50 years to search for the deeper causes of the affair; else we are left with such media inanities as "madness," "bizarre rite," "programmed minds," "spoiled dreams" as explanations, and they explain nothing...
...could share with another black. Or the white farmer who severely beat his black maid to get her to confess to stealing the madam's purse; it wasn't shocking because he beat her, only because she died of the injuries. It must be some kind of unconscious puberty rite that white South Africans go through: I cannot believe that at six, they could be so inhumane...