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...past 182 years, Britons have engaged in a strange vernal rite. Armed with a strong reading glass and a stronger curiosity, they amble attentively through the scarlet-and-gold-bound thickets of Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage, the annual compendium of who's who in the British aristocracy. The sport is more sedentary than bird watching, but the discoveries can be just as fascinating. Take this year's 6-lb., 3,202-page edition, which made its appearance last week...
...Stravinsky, Man of His Age," a portrait of the composer at 83, including his trip last spring to Warsaw, city of his youth, for the performance of Rite of Spring by the Warsaw Opera Ballet and the Firebird Suite by the Warsaw Philharmonic, with the composer conducting...
Interviewees Down. Last week, from Berkeley to Boston, that annual rite of spring called campus recruiting was well under way. And if students like Hartman and Grimm made it sound like a buyer's market-well, it was. "Almost any warm body can get a job," comments M.I.T.'s Placement Director Thomas W. Harrington. This year even more firms are sending out personnel experts to round up bodies for even more jobs than they did in a heavy campaign last year. At the University of Chicago Business School, for instance, 230 companies are recruiting v. 190 last year...
TIME'S discussion of clerical celibacy [Feb. 18] has done a great service by bringing into the open a festering sore in the structure of the church. Celibacy as a sine qua non for the priesthood of the Latin Rite is a product neither of the demands of faith nor of the conclusions of sound theology. The stress on celibacy in Western Catholicism at times borders on the irrational. The Oriental Church has realized the error of identifying a vocation to the priesthood with a vocation to the celibate life...
Breaking the Law. For Catholics and most Protestants, this kind of ecumenical disobedience is a violation of church rule. Catholicism's canon law forbids interCommunion, although an exception is made for Eastern Rite Catholics, who under certain circumstances may receive - the sacraments in Orthodox churches. While some Protestant groups -such as the Disciples of Christ-admit any baptized believer to the Communion table, most take the view that admittance to the sacrament should be preceded by a confession of faith...