Word: rites
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...serving as acolyte, a Detroit man named Ernest Adam Beck was ordained a fortnight ago in Germany as a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. A former Lutheran minister, Father Beck, 42, is married and has two children. He is the first American among a handful of Latin Rite Catholic priests who have received dispensations from the Pope to take holy orders without a vow of celibacy...
...enjoyed by the general reader for its grotesque comedy, savored by the insider for its satire on the folkways of Greenwich Village intellectuals. "I raised you from a Middlebrow. I weaned you away from the art films, showed you the difference between the Western as mass myth and mass rite," one character tells another. It can also be read as a seriocomic exploration of the hollowness concealed beneath the vintage sophistication that has long been identified as Greenwich Village at its most intellectually pretentious...
...resurrect a body from scattered ashes as from dry bones in a grave. The new ruling will probably be of most help to bishops in the predominantly Buddhist countries of Asia, where burial is regarded as a revolting and disrespectful custom. Japanese Catholics have already drawn up a cremation rite, and it is expected that church leaders in India, Ceylon and Burma will eventually follow suit...
...subdued but Commencement is still one of New England's grandest spectaculars. What passes for traditional academic pomp mingled with joyous celebration is just as much kindergarten as college: once a year, now for the 313th time, the boys of Harvard are playing a game they call a festive rite, a game interrupted in three centuries only by a smallpox epedemic...
PAUL REYBEROLLE-Marlborough-Gerson, 41 East 57th. The U.S. gets its first good look at a French painter who serves up frogs, couples and countrysides. As if performing a fertility rite in the paint itself, Reyberolle stirs around a mess of goopy green to convey the spume and spawn of swamp life and, with a calculated confusion of limbs, portrays lovers tumbling in a field, successfully suggests the mystery and fecundity of nature. Thirty oils. Through June...