Article: DAYS OF PASSAGE; DAYS OF PASSAGE

Dictionary definition: passage
The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English;      558 words ... ... there were moorings for boats wanting passage through the lock. ∎  ... process of moving forward: despite the passage of time she still loved him. ∎ ... somewhere: we obtained a permit for safe passage from the embassy. ∎  ...

Article: "Passages" from Van Gennep to the present ...
Ethnologies;  March 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... three phases into which a passage is seperated are well ... antiquity to the present day, through Christian mysticism ... of binary opposites. Day follows night as the ... between things, rites of passage must resolve its crossing ... spatial dimensions of passages were left out of the ...

Encyclopedia entry: Northwest Passage
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ... ... Bibliography See R. J. McClure, The Discovery of the North-West Passage (1856, repr. 1969); B. Keating, The Northwest Passage (1970); A. E. Day, Search for the Northwest Passage (1986); F. Griffiths, ed., Politics of the Northwest ...

Article: The rites of passage and outdoor education: Critical ...
The Journal of Experiential Education;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Rites of passage practices have caught the attention of ... adolescents. The fascination with the rites of passage model (ROP) is especially strong among ... Van Gennep (1960) defined the rites of passage, a three-stage system of social transformation ...

Article: Act, Passage to the
International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis;      700+ words ... ... therefore, to reduce the notion of passage to the act to a simple causality. Instead, instances of passage to the act should be defined ... schizophrenic and paranoid homicidal passages to the act present considerable ... unbearable anxiety. A paranoid passage to the act is liable to occur ...

Article: Northwest Passage easier to sail as Arctic ice melts
Sunday Gazette-Mail;  September 16, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Roger Swanson tried to cross the Northwest Passage in his 57-foot ketch, the ice scraping ... more recreational boats have crossed the passage than in the first 95 years since Roald ... the famously inhospitable 3,200-mile passage in weeks instead of years. And there ...

Article: Icy Northwest Passage feels heat of change // Oil, gas ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  August 12, 1990 ;     700+ words ... ... along its rugged course, the Northwest Passage, the legendary polar route between the ... the few seamen to traverse the Northwest Passage. Time and again, ice jammed between ... Belvedere, from making its way through the passage. But after six years - in 1988 - nature ...