Word: ritualism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final pre-election ritual is a series of speeches by Politburo members. Malenkov spoke from Moscow's marble Hall of Columns, which the Czars built as a playhouse and where the dead Lenin lay in state before he was embalmed and moved to his red granite tomb in Red Square. It was a long spiel (some 7,000 words in its English translation), full of stock praise for Soviet achievements. The keynote lines were aimed at Western ears...
...West for "blackmail . . . with the so-called hydrogen atomic bomb, which does not exist in fact." He wound up by promising that a new world war would "sweep away imperialism from the world." Much to the outside world's surprise, Number 1 himself, who usually brings the election ritual to its climax, remained silent...
...have been. 1900 had a focus-Britain, the banker, educator and policeman to the world. And the focus had a symbol, Victoria Regina. She stood for sureness, security, principle. After Prince Albert died in 1861 she had his evening clothes laid out every night as a memorial ritual of constancy. She had once rebuked a Minister who used the word expediency: "My lord, I have been taught to judge between what was right and what was wrong; 'expediency' is a word I neither wish to hear again nor to understand...