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...last echoes of the installation rite were heard Sunday at one event that was, however elitely attended, at least free. An ecumenical worship service at the White House, starring Billy Graham and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, ended the Inaugural pomp on a note that Mr. Nixon seems to find most comfortable...
KIRKLANDHOUSE SCR Music for Two Pianos Stravinsky. Rite of Spring and Spring and Brahmt, Sonata in F minor, planists Neal Stublerg, '75 and Geraid Moshell, Music Tutor...
...ruling Liberal Democratic Party was unusually subdued for a victory celebration. The banzais were perfunctory and beer toasts stood untouched. Even the usually ebullient party leader, Premier Kakuei Tanaka, looked less than exuberant as he painted in the missing eye on a huge daruma doll, a traditional rite signifying victory or success...
About 80% of the village's Christians are Eastern Rite (Melchite) Catholics who owe allegiance to Rome; the remaining 20% are Greek Orthodox and are loyal to the Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul. There are also about 80 Moslems in the village, all members of the Diab family. For years the Diabs sought to build a mosque. But every time they began construction, the Christians would destroy by night what the Diabs had built by day. The Diabs finally got official protection to build their mosque in 1958. "They put it right beside the police station," reports one young resident...
...Hoss is challenged by a gypsy named Crow (Mark Metcalf). They engage in a sacrificial stomping dance entangled in electric cords and thrust microphones. It is part musical cutting session, part machine-gun duel of far-out words, and it is as chillingly old as a tribal rite in which the young warrior snatches control from the aging patriarch. The language varies between wild incomprehensibility and allusive symbolism. Crow, for instance, calls Hoss, "Feathers," meaning horse feathers, but also meaning that Hoss is chicken. Everyone should be provided with a text before they enter the playhouse. If the words...