Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Members of the Class of '81 will go through the time-honored ritual of applying to upperclass Houses this week, but one College official last Friday urged freshmen to avoid the equally traditional process of trying to "beat the system...
...understatement. One's encounter with the choreography becomes a series of luminous recognitions; dance stripped of all overt meaning works on the viewer's mind with the power of symbol. And the large structures, wholly intent on unfolding patterns of motion and relation, resonate instead with the authority of ritual action...
...explore the processes of the perceiving mind. He gives us the dance: wondrous, self-delighting motion without any prop of plot or theme or explicit significance. And watching the dance, one becomes aware of the mind's response: a subjective discernment of plot and pattern, and the shape of ritual; a perception of the grounds of symbolic recognition in the flowering of unburdened form...
...celebrations. On that day, everyone, young and old, dons a bizarre costume and by 10 a.m. the entire city is drunk, reveling in a combination Halloween-New Year's Eve craziness. The Rex King--a wealthy New Orleans civic leader--glides downtown to toast his young Queen in a ritual unchanged for a century...
...Such a ritual transfer of the championship can touch deep, unarticulated feelings. If men dread death, they also look nervously behind them as they age to see what younger people are hurrying up to replace them, not only on the job but on the planet. The passing of champions can be cathartic; it is part of the large, primitive theatrics that sports perform...