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...their shortcomings, the pills are unquestionably superior to all other contraceptives. The condom, still the bestseller (almost 2 billion sold all over the world, 400 million in the U.S. last year), is unesthetic. Even more than the diaphragm, it requires interruption of a normal progression to perform an antaphrodisiac rite...
...anyway by leaving college. There is much more to MRA's appeal. Many of the kids have had some sort of bad experience, either with sex or with liquor or with petty law-breaking, and joining MRA becomes a cleansing action. The show itself looks almost like a purification rite or a Southern Christian Revival service...
...libretto's demands are preposterous enough: the theme derives from the ethics and rituals of Freemasonry as practiced in ancient Egypt. But Chagall's temple scenes, peopled with a host of priests clothed in garish colors, came off as something resembling a psychedelic initiation rite at the local Masonic temple...
...Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, as written by Playwright Peter Weiss and performed by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company under the direction of Peter Brook, was the decade's most cinematic drama. In a churning rowdydow of rant, cant, poetry, politics, music, magic, rite and ribaldry, the play moved across the stage like half a dozen movies mingling incompatibly on a giant screen. When Director Brook finally came to film the play, he simply let his cameras zig and zag and make lazy eights above the steamy business; then he assembled his takes into...
Signifying Maturity. In other Protestant churches the rite has somewhat less significance. In the United Church of Christ liturgy, confirmation indicates that a person is "accepted into full church membership." Methodists have a simple "order for confirmation and reception into the church," carried out by the minister by the laying on of hands...