Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Accepting the inevitable, Andreotti last week convened a farewell Cabinet meeting and drove to the Quirinale Palace to tender his resignation to President Giovanni Leone. The President immediately began the time-honored ritual of inviting officials of all parties to the Quirinale for talks. Among them: Communist Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer, Socialist Party Leader Bettino Craxi, Neo-Fascist M.S.I. Chieftain Giorgio Almirante, and two Christian Democratic veterans, Benigno Zaccagnini and Amintore Fanfani. After all that, Leone asked Andreotti to try to form a new government...
...many Americans, the international hand-wringing over the sagging value of the dollar abroad is as mystifying as a voodoo ritual. If the dollar's fate overseas is considered at all, it is thought to be a problem for foreigners and international bankers and not for those concerned with the day-to-day matters of Main Street. Nothing could be further from the truth. The dollar's tumbling exchange rate affects Americans and their economy in a number of practical and mostly harmful ways. Among the areas of greatest impact...
...frostbitten early-morning exercise on Long Island was only a small part of an annual ritual that is, literally, for the birds. Every holiday season for the past 78 years, bird lovers have flocked to woods and parkland, marshes and meadow to participate in the National Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count. The object: to identify and tally as many varieties and numbers of birds as possible on a given day. This year's count involved some 33,000 people, from Nome, Alaska, to as far south as Panama and Venezuela. When all their figures are added...
...selfsame IAB, in a different room on the second floor, Harvard's fencers will be performing ritual Japanese suicide using the Dartmouth fencing team as models. Spectators are encouraged to bring their own mats...
...divine ordination. Jefferson suggested as much: "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." Less elegantly, Henry Ford decided: "History is more or less bunk." Civilization of necessity operates by habit. But that process can groove the collective cortex into fatal designs-the ritual-hatreds of Arabs and Israelis, for example...