Word: rites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White House has never seen any thing to beat it. Where the powerful and the privileged usually dine, a buffet is laid on for members of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Where Casals once played, the entertain ment is a sort of tribal rite in which the guests whoop it up to a Texas honky-tonk beat. The placid evening air is pierced by a singer's plangent...
...lots of Lowells; many of the great intellects of American history actually slept in these dorms. But that won't mean beans to you during Freshman Week, you just for here, no ghosts yet. Freshman Week is traditionally the time when Yardlings engage in a sort of mass baptismal rite, tearing around the Yard with anything that will hold liquid and dousing everything that moves. Traditionally, at least one major administrator or religious leader is blessed by the exuberant water-wielders each year causing the Dean of Freshman to decree some kind of foolish injunction against further water-fighting...
...sealing" of the conclave is a meticulous medieval rite. After all the Cardinals have assembled inside the Apostolic Palace adjoining St. Peter's, the Master of Ceremonies or an assistant will stride through the rooms of the palace shouting, "Extra omnes!" (Everybody out). All not permitted in the conclave will then leave. A chosen Cardinal, in this case Argentina's Eduardo Pironio, will supervise the lockup inside. Two other Vatican officials and the commandant of the Swiss Guard will also lock the door from the outside. Special notaries will duly document the sealing...
Every President since Eisenhower has proposed reductions, but without success. Says Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano: "It is an annual rite of spring for the Executive Branch to march up Capitol Hill with a broad proposal to reform Impact Aid and to march down the hill in the summer without...
WITH THE POSSIBLE exception of Alfred Hitchcock, Philippe de Broca must be Cambridge's favorite director. After all, it was de Broca's universally acknowledged masterpiece King of Hearts that ran in Cambridge for over five years, gathering a dedicated following and becoming something of an initiation rite for nascent Cantabrigians, from 1971 until 1976. But no one had heard from de Broca in the past few years; the man who brought us King of Hearts and, once upon a time, That Man from Rio, seemed to have disappeared. Well, de Broca fans can rest assured that their...