Word: riting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anneliese's parents had agreed to the exorcism with the local bishop's approval after doctors failed to rid her of epileptic-like convulsions. The prosecution took no issue with the rite of exorcism, which Fathers Wilhelm Renz and Ernst Alt conducted according to a Catholic ritual promulgated in 1614. But Prosecutor Karl Stenger argued that calling a doctor to examine the girl "would not have compromised the defendants' religious convictions." Churchmen seemed to agree. Munich's Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger said that the 1614 ritual "must be thoroughly revised," and the German Bishops' Conference ruled...
...alumnus of the Class of '69, I would like to see today's protesters put their money where their mouth is. Are they willing to pay the personal price of helping bring outrageous injustice to an end? Or is all the marching and shouting just another empty rite of spring? --Marvin Hightower
...make a comment-as if one were needed-on how passionate idolatry can briefly unbalance youthful minds. To that end he requires poor Richard Thomas, known herein as Jimmy J., to strip, smear himself with river mud and encourage his pals to join him in a fake primitive rite designed to put them in touch with the departed spirit. A dog's howl seems to him a sign that he has been heard, though a more objective observer might imagine the hound to be the world's first furry movie critic. A little later there is a candlelit...
There is no surer or happier sign of spring and the surge of new life. In the lush bluegrass pastures of Kentucky, new foals test their spindly legs behind those famous white rail fences. In another annual rite, the great stables breed Thoroughbred stallions and mares imported from around the world...
...that the first big rite of spring is over, all the anthroplogists are eagerly awaiting the next festival, the "Choosing of the Concentration...