Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current global diplomatic offensive, which the Kremlin regards as part of a Peking plan for world domination. In the past three months the decibel level of Moscow's attacks on China has risen to ear-splitting volume, all but drowning out the Soviet press's ritual critiques of Western warmongering and imperialism...
...South Pacific: it all seemed so long ago. Yet Wilkinson had no trouble joining in the team's revelry. He adroitly managed to get through the initiation ordeal known as the "Cardinal puff," in which the newcomer, well-stoked on beer, has to perform an elaborate ritual of hand movements...
...almost a decade, each fall has witnessed the curious ritual of the University administration's attempt to entice undergraduates to elect representatives to the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR), a student-faculty disciplinary committee formed in the wake of the 1969 student strike. And for almost as many years, undergraduates replied with a terse...
...object of this ritual is not prostitution and the women are not harlots. They are illegal immigrants (known euphemistically these days as "undocumented aliens") who have crossed the Rio Grande from neighboring Juarez, Mexico, looking for work as maids. Their usual rate: around $25 a week. Because of its proximity to Ju?z, El Paso is the second largest crossing point for undocumented aliens in the U.S. The largest is Chula Vista, Calif., which shares part of its sewerage system with neighboring Tijuana. Aliens have been known to crawl through the common drainage pipes to reach...
...tragic and timeless subjects were not to be found on the street. The American artists wanted to locate their discourse beyond events, in a field not bound by historical time, that went back to preliterate, "primitive" tribal antiquity. The notion of ritual occupied the same place in their work that the idea of the "marvelous" did in French surrealism. Totem, cave, prison, sentinel, medium, personage, priest: such were the recurrent images...