Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Posturing Polemics. If the first week of the talks is any indication, it will be quite some time before that point is reached. Ten hours of formal negotiations plus countless hours of press briefings and background sessions produced little more than posturing and polemics, a kind of ritual, throat-clearing preamble of insults and accusations. "We are now involved in a major propaganda campaign," said Chief U.S. Negotiator Averell Harriman. "But one day they will get tired and get down to constructive discussions...
...march on Washington. They agreed, moreover, to invest 30% of the church's unrestricted funds in housing and business enterprises in low-interest, high-risk areas. In a dramatic effort to invest church services with contemporary relevance, a new communion litany, which may become part of the permanent ritual, was written for the meeting. It was a litany of some relevance to citizens of any religion-or none-in which communicants publicly confessed their civic sins. Among the supplications: > "Forgive us for pretending to care for the poor, when we do not like poor people and do not want...
There were no freshmen events here today to break up the varsity competition. As a result, Baker performed his now ritual triple in the half mile, mile, and two-mile, within the space of an hour. He took the mile in 4.06 and the two-mile in 9.14.1. Both events were Harvard sweeps. But they were not enough, as Harvard lost to its chief track rival on the banks of the Hudson...
What makes Indian folk art engaging, despite its perishable wood and terra cotta, are the extravagant whimsies with which its untutored creators embellish formal Hindu legend and gods. The destroyer Shiva, as portrayed by the aboriginal Maria tribe of Madhya Pradesh in a ritual mask, takes on the unkempt, disheveled appearance of a wandering mendicant...
...shouted "Arms, arms!" and "Draft us!" In Egypt on the day of the Israeli parade, 7,300,000 voters went to the polls and, by an affirmative vote of 99.98%, which is even purer than Ivory Soap, endorsed President Gamal Abdel Nasser's reform program in a ritual that he described as "louder than the thunder of 300 tanks in Arab Jerusalem." Though the vote was ostensibly on a series of domestic reforms, Nasser had also asked the people to make it a ringing endorsement of his policy of renewed holy war against Israel-even though he knows that...