Word: rites
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...every trace of grace and nobility from Blanche, leaving her as little more than a drunken whore, is hardly fair to Mr. Williams. Once this is done, the play is no longer Blanche's tragedy, nor does it become Stanley's triumph, but rather an extended sort of fertility rite. "Procreative power" without some sort of intellectual substantiation does not make an exciting theatre, I'm afraid. Mr. Rabb has captured much of the fire, horror, an virility of Streetcar; but he has missed the tenderness, the beauty, and the love that give the play dimension and stature...
...what insane indoctrination has Shirley been subjected, that in her moment of truth she turned to the futile rite of baptism...
...researchers, working with grants from the Scottish Rite Foundation and the United States Public Health Service, also examined behavior patterns in non-Western cultures...
...abandoned the crushed wreck and stood on the floe, some 300 miles from land. The men tried dragging boats across the ice in search of open water; they had to quit after two miles. For five more months, they camped in the open, drifting, drifting. There was the sad rite of shooting the dogs, the terror of being dragged off the ice by vicious 1,100-Ib. sea leopards that could leap from the water and catch a running man. The expedition physicist scrawled in his tattered diary: "A bug on a single molecule of oxygen in a gale...
Probably nothing can head off an eventual sociological study of the Fort Lauderdale rite of spring. But one girl's comment should help. Asked why she made the migration, she answered with a simplicity that needs no analysis: "This is where the boys...