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...trying to teach them that it is better to give than to receive," said one briefing officer. But the women will be exempt from boxing and wrestling; they will substitute judo and karate. The female plebes, however, will undergo the same painful, often humiliating seven-week initiation ritual that male cadets have dubbed "Beast Barracks." Its main features: incessant needling from upperclassmen, split-second obedience to their slightest commands and constant criticism of plebes' posture. Though women are still barred from combat, female cadets will have to learn how to heft the 10¼-Ib. M-14 rifle...
...John Wesley Harding album, particularly As I Went Out One Morning and The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest, songs about false searches. Isis begins with the narrator leaving Isis, the Egyptian goddess of perfect wife and motherhood for reasons left obscure. He goes through a ritual of cutting off his hair and washing his clothes and meets a man who promises him easy wealth. They travel to a country of "pyramids embedded in ice" and the narrator discovers that his companion is a grave-robber. His imagination is inflamed--he has visions of turquoise, gold, and diamonds...
President Leone last week asked Moro's Cabinet to remain temporarily in office in caretaker status. This week, he will begin the ritual consultations with various party politicians in an effort to form a new government. De Martino, responding to labor-union fury over early elections, allowed at week's end that the Socialists would "evaluate and consider" counterproposals to their demands, but the hope is nevertheless dim. Conceivably, Moro, or some other Christian Democratic leader, could try to rule with a new minority government, but it would probably fail its first parliamentary test. Worse, it would only...
...inseparable. As members of the last cohesive hunting societies in North America, they lived in a vital, even religious relationship with the animals they chased and ate. A Cree family band ranges over hundreds of square miles, fishing and hunting with the strict procedures and skill that amount to ritual. Bear bones, for example, are never thrown to the dogs. The Cree believe that animals shun being captured by people who show disrespect...
...transition became complete one spring day in 1972 when Cheek, then a deacon, attended the ordination of a young man. "Before the procession began, I was very pointedly told that only priests, not deacons, could participate in the ritual laying on of hands. I can still remember the embarrassment, rage and grief that surged through me as I stood alone in the pew while my brothers went up into the sanctuary to lay on hands...