Word: rites
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...Hunt. The story of a struggle, played out in Korea, between two U.S. soldiers: for one of them killing is wrong, for the other it is rite...
Meouchi (pronounced May-oo-she) is spiritual leader of some 500,000 Lebanese Christians, plus more than 200,000 in the U.S. who observe the Maronite Rite of the Roman Catholic Church. But his importance goes well beyond the spiritual. President Kennedy, who is seldom seen publicly with U.S. Catholic bishops, will receive him at the White House. At home in Lebanon, Meouchi is frequently consulted by Lebanon's Prime Minister Rashid Karame, a Moslem.* Both Lebanon's Grand Mufti and Jordan's King Hussein are good friends and correspondents of Meouchi's, and Syria...
...have stayed with the boys in Fort Lauderdale. Greek grandeur is not duplicated by a setting in Thebes (Mich.) or Greek name-dropping. Swarthout reads like a parody of a bad translation of Homer: "At last the leaves are fallen; then do men their duty to the tree-crop, rite singular to towns, to which only fathers and sons may be initiate: leaf burning . . . Wives and mothers watch, doing dishes, their heads and shoulders oracular in kitchen light...
...beneath a pier at Daytona Beach, Fla., a group of collegians gathered, glanced surreptitiously about, and one by one held out their arms. At that moment a passing dowager spied the scene, stared for a moment in horrified silence, and rushed away to report what was certainly a wicked rite. "I knew it!" she gasped. "They're taking the needle...
...rich man's soul. Out come the linens and the candelabra, the rare wines, the cates and dainties, a whole lamb. Like dukes the poor pilgarlics sit them down to a palatial feast that rapidly degenerates into a gutter brawl. But the brawl is intended also as a rite, as the dissolution of a desiccated society in a Dionysian mystery. In the depths of it, as the rabble bawls and dances, fights and fornicates all over the house, the leper puts a record on the gramophone, and suddenly with supernal irony the scene of chaos is explained and sanctified...