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...Westernized. What will hurt them far more than having to enlarge their wardrobes is the government campaign to suppress their lion hunts and other deep cultural traditions. Last week the 50,000 Masai in neighboring Kenya-still photogenic in their loincloths-whooped it up in their gala ewunoto initiation rite for new tribal elders. Though it is the most important of the Masai ceremonies, their brothers in Tanzania are unlikely to celebrate it ever again...
...moral neutrality of boyhood. "Suddenly two of the birds rush at each other in the air. Quick as a wink, one of them is gone. Swallowed. A single yellow feather drifts down to settle on the moss. I laugh, delighted by the purity of it." In a familiar childhood rite, he discovers the intricate magic of a yo-yo that he has bought from two Oriental itinerant salesmen, and learns the various movements-"walking the dog," "loop the loops" and a dazzling number called "the universe...
Died. Maximos IV Cardinal Sayegh, 89, Patriarch of Antioch and leader of Roman Catholicism's Eastern Melchite Rite; of cancer; in Beirut. One of the fathers of Vatican II, the outspoken patriarch stirred the Council by urging a college of bishops to advise the Pope, an idea that was implemented last September when the Synod of Bishops convened in Rome...
...fact that he will not be allowed to vote. "I don't care about that," he said airily, "because we don't decide many things around here by a ingle vote." >Tried out, before a massive congregation of 6,000 Episcopalians, an experimental, simplified new rite of Holy Communion that closely approximates the worship services of early Christian imes...
Katz knew that this could not last forever. "Rite-Kit was a war baby," he recalls. "People basically don't like to write letters, and I realized that when the war was over Rite-Kit would die." So how about Christmas? It should survive eternally. Katz therefore took his earnings from Rite-Kit, set up Paper-craft. He was willing to innovate; among other things, he helped pioneer the change from flat-folded Christmas wrappings to those sold by the roll. His stock in trade is the traditional design -Santa Claus, the Christmas tree, Donner, Blitzen, etc. This...