Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...levee of a thousand courtiers and high officials. Some of the men were dressed in cream-colored trousers and high-necked gold-braided uniform jackets; it was a scene oddly reminiscent of the days of Metternich. At a signal from the master of ceremonies, they carried out a prescribed ritual: a bow, a kiss bestowed on the outstretched imperial hand and flowery salutations, "Tavalod-e-Shahanshah Aryamehr ra Tabrik Arz Mikonam [Greetings on your Imperial Majesty's birthday...
...Moscow not to protest but to inform the governments of the conspiracy trials. The Soviet deputy chief of mission in Belgrade, Dimitri Sevian, whom Tito had sent packing when he was still too piqued to be prudent, suddenly reappeared at his post. Finally, in what has become almost a ritual of pacification, the order went out to arrest Mihajlov...
...Stratagem and The Conformist), it considers the source and meaning of European fascism. But Amarcord never becomes preoccupied with the phenomenon. Fellini works the politics evenly and gracefully into the fabric of the whole movie and portrays fascism as a crackbrained aberration that allowed for some moments of ritual absurdity even as it brought forth a kind of cagey, half-comic defiance. One of Amarcord's most memorable episodes concerns the playing of the socialist anthem from atop a church steeple, an incident that is part practical joke and part moral gesture; it implies a kind of human resiliency...
Died. Jaya Chamarajendra Wadiyar Bahadur, 55, wealthy former Maharajah of Mysore and one of the last of India's great princes; of bronchial pneumonia; in Bangalore, India. Wadiyar ascended Mysore's throne in 1940. Though he ruled with a fabled fondness for splendor, pomp and courtly ritual, Wadiyar also did much to modernize his 125,000-sq.mi. realm. In 1947, when India began consolidating the 550 princely states left behind after British rule, Wadiyar was one of the first potentates to relinquish his sovereignty; from 1956 to 1964 he served as appointed Governor of Mysore, and from...
...past year is Yes' Tales from Topographic Oceans (Atlantic; $11.98). A double-LP affair of almost Mahlerian proportions, Tales has four movements, each about 20 minutes long, that attempt to invoke the spirit and meaning of the shastras-"The Revealing Science of God," "The Remembering," "The Ancient" and "Ritual...