Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Individual memory and memory of mankind figure in the images. Mirko's titles are mythical, Biblical, and concerned with ritual. He looks for "another dimension," a way to evoke a total, rather than merely an intellectual response in the viewer." Abstract form is the common denominator," Mirko said...
...through Wednesday there was no trouble. Then Thursday night I started my usual prediction-night ritual. To the Master's for tea. To the dining hall for another unmatchable Lowell House dinner. Back to the room for a half hour with Walter and Eric...
...monolithic uniformity in ritual and belief has been the unique glory of Catholicism-at times, even, its salvation as a definable entity. Even Protestants dissatisfied with what often seems to be the spiritless confusion of their own churches would contend that Catholicism should profit by the Reformation but not use it as an example. For better or worse, millions of Catholics like the church...
French film makers frequently treat sex as a farce, and Swedes as a midnight-sun ritual. But for the Germans-ah, the Germans-it seems to be a subject to be explained...
...curses, as the sweating players pound out their fury against the enemy, then sit alone, gasping and retching on the bench. When Alda final ly takes the field to re-enact Plimpton's quarterbacking blunders, he becomes an unwelcome intruder, making a simple game out of a serious ritual filled with thunder and grace...