Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chapter headings provide a good example of his emphasis on the sensational: "The Celtic Revivial," "Alphabets Galore," "Mystery Hill," "Ships of Tarshish," "The Druids of New England," "The Ritual Phallic Monuments," "Mother-of-Heroes, Lady Goddess Byanu...
...even forbearing when given a chance for revenge (Tom's opportunity to whip one of his white bosses). However unintentional, an apology from white America is contained subliminally in all of this-the blockbuster week-long programming, the parade of villainous white stars. It is a kind of ritual sacrifice of pop heroes, a small but formal self-abasement...
While the rest of Harvard was sliding in the slush, unpacking frisbees, or still choosing courses in anticipation of spring, the tennis team performed its own ritual as it opened its season at the University of Wisconsin in the Men's Intercollegiate Tennis tournament...
...Jersey, Governor Brendan Byrne summoned the state's nearly forgotten civil defense workers to canvass commercial buildings and offer advice on how to reduce gas usage. School Superintendent Frank Mastoraki of Bridgeton, N.J., played out an exhausting daily ritual that was becoming commonplace for many school officials. He asked local police to telephone him at 4 a.m. with information on road and weather conditions so that he could decide by 6 a.m. whether to open his schools on schedule. Alternating conditions of snow, ice and fog made roads perilous for students who drove cars or rode buses...
...Temple Scroll also provides the first thorough look at the Halakhah (religious law) of the Essenes. Compared with the orthodox rabbinical thinking that was later codified in the second century Mishnah, the Qumran rules on ritual cleanliness were superstrict. Only the skins of properly slaughtered animals were to be permitted in the temple city. Blind people, as well as the ill and maimed, were barred as unclean. All sexual relations within the temple city were forbidden. One cemetery was to serve four cities since "you shall not follow the customs of the Gentiles who bury their dead everywhere...