Word: ritual
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...symbol of purity. Apart from the theocracy, most Iranians in and outside the country, irrespective of their religion, celebrate the ancient rites. The Tuesday-night event itself is known as Chaharshanbe Suri (literally "Wednesday Party," because dusk brings the new day in Iran) and was originally intended as a ritual to ward off evil spirits and negative energy collected in the previous year. That purification is done by leaping over a series of small bonfires...
Grays Hall resident Shiya Wang ’13 proposed an alternative boat-sailing ritual that does not require presence on the Charles...
...queer community as opposed to a bunch of people entering a club to drink, hook up, whatever." However, unlike other forms of service, DJing puts you in an empowered, controlling relationship with those you are trying to help. "You’re sort of a shaman in a secular ritual to bring people to a place of ecstasy.” This moment, she elaborated, embodies the term “communitas,” or an “über-community feeling: [the] feeling of in a moment being boundaryless, being connected to everyone around...
...ensemble work in the wind section stood out in the third movement, as in the symphony as a whole. Even in the dolorous intensity of the second movement, the emphasis on the starkness of the horns turned Beethoven’s exploration of grief into more of a public ritual of loss than an introverted sorrow—another interpretive move that helped the concert transcend the typical Beethoven performance...
...interesting that you use that word. It seems like there is a ritual, in a sense, to the way conversations play out. You identify stages that conversations go through. When people meet each other for the first or second time, there is a sort of architecture in their talk. People are tentative at first. There's a certain kind of greeting formula that takes place as things develop. People become aware of things in common. Sometimes it's meaningless, like they both spent a week in the Ukraine, or neither of them has ever seen a football game...