Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President must really assume a role in a morality play, a ritual drama in which Americans expect him to slay evil. That idea goes back to the founders' exultant belief that America was truly God's country, the nation charged with the task of proving that a free society could thrive. This belief lingers, and it is not confined to assertive patriots. Consciously or unconsciously, it is shared by the country's harshest critics, including the New Left, whose very anger is based partly on the assumption that the U.S. should be near-perfect, a working Utopia...
...objects, altars, Astarte and menhirs. In so doing it suggests the deeper roots of Joan Miró's art. Through dream symbols and childish cartoons, through the very innocence of his spontaneous line, he poetically evokes the rhythms and the harmony of a simpler world. It is a ritual celebration of the mysterious will to create that drove man when he slept under the stars, and drives him still...
...polished ritual. Speaking from the heart via the TelePrompTer, the President delivered an oration that might have been composed in honor of Wellington, post-Waterloo...
...supernatural grace, they may be reborn." Paul thus brushed aside the questioning of infant baptism raised recently by Catholics and non-Catholics alike on a variety of grounds-the most important of which asks whether those baptized should not be old enough to understand the significance of the ritual...
...Charles's innovation brought waves of gospel talent into the blues field, and at the same time offered blues performers a chance to employ the climactic cadences and mythic ritual of black evangelism. Some of his more ardent followers adopted stage mannerisms in which they appeared to be seized by God; they tore off their clothes, called for witnesses, collapsed and rose up again. The bespangled James Brown's whirling, convulsive performances have even been analyzed as enactments of the Crucifixion...