Word: ritually
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...picturesque Japanese island of Ikitsuki, where the ways of farmers and fishermen die hard, two old men squat before a home altar and chant prayers carefully entrusted to them by their ancestors. The ritual is intense and moving. But something is askew. The rite is partly Buddhist, partly Christian. The language sounds odd, a sort of pidgin Latin. And what do the ancient prayers mean? One of the worshipers admits, "I don't understand a word of this...
...Christmas Eve. He lighted the window of the Reagans' bedroom with an artist's alchemy of oil and watercolor, a small golden rectangle of warmth and hope. It is a reminder that joy and thanks, for the moment, can overwhelm chaos and brutality, and the simple human ritual of a midnight prayer or a final package wrapping can replace those rumbles of nations marching...
...Texans. Keep in mind, though, that Mimi had nothing to do with the selection of Dayton as her escort. In feudal fashion, Idlewild made the match, based on criteria known only to the club. All the other couples were paired by Ann Draper, a professional social secretary. This matchmaking ritual began as a convenience decades ago and still seems to bring shining results. Says Kyle England: "I haven't had a bad date...
...meadow near Eureka, Calif., on the state's rocky northern coast, 50 Yurok Indians gathered for an unusual ritual. After three younger members of the tribe hollowed out a bit of earth, a Yurok leader reverentially placed seven bags in the hole. Ella Norris, 83, the tribe's oldest member, moved forward. Raising her eyes toward the sky, she said a prayer in English and in the language of her forebears: "We are sorrowful for the sacrilegious actions of the past. May these remains lie peacefully at rest forever...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--It is becoming a pre-Christmas tradition, the Harvard hockey team's Secret Santa gift to the ECAC. The ritual goes like this: win a big one, or a couple, right before facing off against lightly-regarded Brown. Beat New Hampshire, yes, and maybe Maine, and then outskate, outshoot, and outplay the Bruins for most of the game but just don't score the big one, perhaps lose a lead in the final minutes...