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This week in millions of households around the world Jews are celebrating the Passover holiday. Following an ancient ritual, after sundown on Monday evening they sit down at the Seder table to retell the story of the Jewish exodus from slavery in Egypt. They recall their ancestors' tears with salt water and bitter herbs and eat a sweet concoction of nuts, apple and wine to commemorate the mortar with which slaves once cemented bricks. The anguish of captivity is recounted in the text of the Haggadah, and the joy of freedom celebrated with song...
...rated star is today's trivia question. But for more than 30 years, all three networks have aired evening news shows that reach more people than any single newspaper or magazine. Turning on the TV set around dinnertime to watch the news has become a sort of flickering ritual that unifies much of the country for 30 minutes...
...million-member United Church of Christ last week became the first U.S. Christian body to authorize ritual recognition for divorce. Along with its Communion, marriage and burial forms, the U.C.C.'s revised Book of Worship (prepared mainly to drop male-biased language) includes a five-page "Order for Recognition of the End of a Marriage." In the new rite, conducted after a civil divorce, the minister announces that a husband and wife have decided to dissolve their marriage "after much effort, pain and anger," and the once married couple then recite words of regret and respect...
Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart makes Pentecostal inroads in Latin America. -- A major U. S. church introduces a divorce ritual...
HAIR FROM shortly after we are born until shortly after we die, we all must deal with the constant growth of one of nature's most wonderful and perplexing phenomena. For most of us the periodic cutting of the hair is a ritual, less pleasant than going to a ballgame but more fun than seeing the dentist...