Word: ritual
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Psychically speaking, the holidays are always a tender time. "But this Thanksgiving is the biggie," says Mary Courtney of New York University's Child Study Center. "Having a unifying ritual can be good, but we don't need people sitting around in a pile sobbing or starting to compare their levels of pain. But it can be hard not to. Even I call my own family back in Minnesota, and they talk about how traumatized they all are. I want to say to them, 'I've been working seven days a week on this at the center of the trauma...
Harvard students should be advised that Yale students have a tradition of peeing on the John Yale statue. Sex in the stacks of Yalener Library is another beloved campus ritual...
...really fair to judge someone by their cover letters. No one writes good cover letters. They are a strange feature of the modern corporate mating ritual, wherein a very simple communication—“I need a job. You have jobs available. I would like one of those jobs.”—gets bloated by ridiculous formalism into a page-long ordeal that makes each applicant sound like an insane sycophantic freak with a bizarre, fetish-like interest in whatever departments are hiring. Any and all life experiences must be grotesquely contorted to demonstrate...
Though the third president of Harvard, Leonard Hoar, Class of 1650, was the first to be formally installed, the ritual elements still practiced today began in 1707 with the installation of John Leverett, Class...
...better appreciation of the differences and fundamental similarities between the various genres of poems he performed. The last two lines of verse Ferry read (from a Babylonian poem, “Prayer to the Gods of the Night”) were: “Establish the truth in the ritual omen, / In the offered lamb establish the truth.” And indeed, these words, in their haunting beauty and characteristic poignance, marked a fitting close to the evening...