Word: ritually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frigate birds would constitute one of the worst aircraft-collision haz ards in the world. The frigate is a sea bird that spends its adolescent years far from the island, returning to mate only after it is mature. Each year, a new crop of adults arrives for the mating ritual, thus posing a problem to aircraft that could last longer than a decade even if an extermination program were undertaken...
Roman Catholics are confessing less but profiting from it more. In the past two years, U.S. parish priests admit, attendance at the confession box-once a Saturday ritual for legions of devout Catholics-has fallen noticeably. "I would say that confessions are at least a third less than they used to be," says Monsignor James A. Davin of St. Bernard Church in Mount Lebanon, Pa. At the same time, many renewal-minded Catholics are approaching the confessional in a more meaningful way-not as a mechanical means of cleansing their souls of sin but as a life-giving encounter with...
...practice of confession has firm Biblical roots; the Epistle of James advises: "Confess your sins to one another, that you may be healed." In the early church, penance was usually a public ritual at which penitents openly disclaimed serious wrongdoings before the assembled congregation. Not until 1215 was confession to a priest made the norm for the church, by the Fourth Lateran Council. According to canon law, Catholics must confess any mortal (serious) sins before receiving Holy Communion, and as a rule they are expected to do so at least once a year...
...rock-'n'-roll quintet, its sounds brutally amplified, screeches and howls. The dancers enact their love ritual, while a filmed psychedelic view of their actions is projected-elongated, distorted and weirdly colored-on the wavering backdrop. "This is what we're doing," the action in the foreground seems to say. "And this is what we feel we're doing," proclaims the film. At the end, passions spent, the man walks through the billowing drop and out a series of backstage doors; Astarte recedes into the shadows, awaiting her next visitor. In his new Astarte, Choreographer-Director...
Although this passive element in Jarrell's verse seems against the American grain, he also possessed the American male's obsession with practical detail, the ritual and vocabulary of a job. His common man's delight in the way things work gave him a great technical advantage over his brother poets. This is especially notable in his war poems. Jarrell, a washed-out pilot (too old), was a dedicated pilot instructor. He wrote about war, says Poet Karl Shapiro, not as other poets "sweating out the war in uniform," but as a participant, armed with military expertise...