Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a while word was passed to the penthouse that an ambulance was waiting. A guard was sent down to make sure that there were no onlookers. With this ritual observed, someone took off the oxygen mask so Hughes could be moved. Gordon Margulis lifted the frail seventy-year-old billionaire, as light as a child, and put him on a stretcher. He and an aide carried it to the service elevator. Margulis raced back, wrestled the huge oxygen cylinder aboard, and Hughes was put back...
...Annual Ritual. Some Americans have given up sending Christmas cards. Chicago Real Estate Broker Joan Armstrong stopped sending cards after she got divorced. "I felt I had to explain and didn't know what to say," says she. But many Americans still make a project of the annual ritual. One of my colleagues and his wife buy their cards right after Christmas for the following season; it saves money. They send nonsectarian UNICEF cards to friends who are Jewish but not devout, Hannukah cards to Jewish friends who are devout, religious designs to fellow Christians and letters of varying...
...Woolf could write, "Life would split asunder without letters." Who can doubt that the author of 4,000 of them meant it? There is a craving to these letters - an almost palpable need to reach out and touch. Taken as a whole, they constitute a ritual against loneliness, a message in a bottle repeating with a hundred only apparently casual variations, "I'm here. Are you there...
Hampton's dedication to this dream world he created, complete with magic script, elaborate ritual, and symbolic objects, is somewhat disturbing...
...play's ritual aura is established as the actors enter, rhythmically pounding their bodies and abruptly striking poses that evoke the personae to come. There are no fixed roles in this work; the cast is an anonymous, drably clad, chameleon-like group. They are reincarnated in successive scenes, serving as specific characters, archetypal men and women, corpses, beasts, chorus or bystanders. Rudimentary identities and emotions are conveyed through pantomime and the ebb and flow of varicolored light...