Word: ritualism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Medal of Honor winners and the honor guards from the four services all snapped smartly to attention as the President, acting "on behalf of a grateful people," placed a Medal of Honor upon each flag-covered casket. In this sparse ritual honoring two men whose particular names are "known but to God,'' a democracy paid tribute to the courage of the assorted millions who fought for its freedoms. And in respect for all those who died in that service, the Unknowns were given burial services by three chaplains, in Latin by the Roman Catholic, English by the Protestant...
...during the campaign." Later Patterson said publicly that he "would appreciate" the Klan vote, refused even to condemn Klan-style synagogue bombings. Thus the state's chief law-enforcement officer stood up with the violence-preaching organization that recently castrated a convenient Negro as part of an initiation ritual...
Jonathan Kozol has added another chapter to his saga of mental pathology. Insights and images accumulated while crawling through the sewers of the mind are tied together in a bitter-sweet package of sickness titled "The Ritual." If this sample is typical of the novel from which it is taken, it is hard to see how the full dosage can be made digestible...
...before any of these things begin to happen Van Cliburn is bracing himself to clear one high hurdle. Late Monday afternoon, May 19, if he conforms to his usual ritual as a somewhat ailing health enthusiast, he will eat three raw eggs cracked into a glass with the yolks intact and swallowed in one agonized gulp. In the evening in his dressing room, he will dose himself from a staggering array of pills and nose drops. As a tension reliever, and because he thinks it helps clear his mind, he will sit down for several minutes bolt upright...
...aura of ritual reserve carried over from the classroom to Copey's personal encounters. Physically...