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...Koetsu sometimes worked with potters and sometimes commissioned pieces from them; his approval became a signature of authorship. His passion was tea bowls--the "active," intimately handled objects of a ceremony that, imported from China, had been turned by its first Japanese grandmaster, Sen No Rikyu, into a cultural rite linked to Zen Buddhism. The "way of tea" had become an essential part of the samurai-influenced code of upper Japanese behavior. It connoted roughness, naturalness and--at its origins, at least--lack of pretension. In it, aesthetics and morality were conjoined, under the sign of severe restraint...
...been a rite of passage for years--but for the class of 2004, it will be history...
...Koetsu sometimes worked with potters and sometimes commissioned pieces from them; his approval became a signature of authorship. His passion was tea bowls - the "active," intimately handled objects of a ceremony that, imported from China, had been turned by its first Japanese grandmaster, Sen No Rikyu, into a cultural rite linked to Zen Buddhism. The "way of tea" had become an essential part of the samurai-influenced code of upper Japanese behavior. It connoted roughness, naturalness and - at its origins, at least - lack of pretension. In it, aesthetics and morality were conjoined, under the sign of severe restraint...
...rite of baptism for the dead, ancestors are posthumously given a physical baptism by water...
...York appointed four archdiocesan exorcists. In an average year, they investigate some 350 cases and perform 10 to 15 exorcisms. Last year Chicago's Francis Cardinal George appointed the first official exorcist in his diocese's 160-year history. Several months earlier, the Vatican had revised the Rite of Exorcism. It eliminated physical descriptions of Satan and such honorifics as the "Father of Lies," but it also vigorously affirmed the church's power to banish him using God's name, holy water, the sign of the cross and readings from Scripture. An exorcists' convention in Rome in July attracted...