Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was any point at all to politicians going through the ritual of campaigning, it was simply to whip up the enthusiasm of local professionals, charged with rounding up the vote. There was no point at all, he asserted, to political pulse-taking after the campaign had started. "It has become a stunt. Like tearing a telephone directory in two, it impresses without instructing...
Waugh's Hollywood trip was not wasted. He was fascinated by the ritual for disguising death which is big business in Southern California. Waugh spent every day that he could get away prying into the fatuous, sumptuous necropolis of Forest Lawn. The result was The Loved...
...this work useless. Tom Dewey looked like a gone goose. He was told that if he wanted the nomination, he would have to go after it-and hard. He did. In Oregon's rainy spring he made 92 speeches in 20 days, made obeisance to every traditional ritual of the successful campaigner. He won the primary. That was the turning point...
...Yard ceremonies, climaxing a week of Commencement pageantry, get underway at 9 o'clock with the Solomn Ritual. Under their respective marshals, all candidates will assemble in front of Thayer Hall at 9:30 o'clock to start the traditional march to Tercentenary Theater, on the steps of Memorial Church, where the Class will hold its exercises...
...temperas, on show in a Manhattan gallery last week, featured birdlike forms haloed with skeins of light, and minnows flashing in dark swirls of color. A devotee of oriental philosophy, Graves has recently begun mingling his subjective symbols with decayed-looking versions of the ancient Chinese bronze ritual vessels in the Seattle Art Museum...