Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just before sunrise, a great procession, led by naked, ash-smeared holy men and gold-caparisoned elephants, trod solemnly toward the winter stream in a clamor of conch shells and cymbals. With ritual reverence, the first pilgrims rubbed the water into their skin and their eyes, then drank it. They believed from their scripture legends that they might thereby speed to Nirvana and be spared the pain of countless rebirths in man's universe...
This birthday ritual is a tradition at the Lambaréné mission. But the person who, after Dr. Schweitzer, knows it best, and who may take over the mission when Dr. Schweitzer has had his last birthday there, was not on hand for the party...
...coat, the President of France is a beloved symbol of republican pomp. He wields no executive power; he cannot initiate or veto legislation. But he can-if the situation demands and permits-counsel, guide and admonish. During France's periodic Cabinet crises, when he must direct the dancelike ritual from which new governments emerge, he seems a heartening symbol of stability. Premiers come and go, but the President remains (for a seven-year term, at least...
...times have changed. Tighter discipline around the Square has cut down the damages formerly incurred by local bars and restaurants. The ritual of pulling down the posts has, instead, become standard procedure at all games, win or lose...
...ceremony will follow the simple ritual used for the early Presidents of Harvard in pre-Revolutionary times...