Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dozens of groups have sprung up in the U.S. and Europe to fight for orthodoxy or traditional ritual. The largest and most vigorous of these in the U.S. is Catholics United for the Faith (C.U.F.), an organization with 135 chapters and nearly 12,500 members across the country. Founded in 1968 by genteel Wall Street Broker H. Lyman Stebbins and four other concerned Catholics, C.U.F.'s main complaint is that religious indoctrination of Catholic youngsters has virtually been taken over by liberal priests, nuns and publishers. As a result, they contend, traditional doctrines of faith and morals are hardly...
This is the modern ritual of power. It is a final exhilaration for men in these positions, a distillate of the presidential spectacle that sweeps across oceans and mountain ranges with such ease...
Despite recent U.S. economic troubles, the statement still applies. The Soviet leaders would never publicly admit this, and probably most of them do not even admit it to themselves. But the most sophisticated of them, for all their ritual denunciations of the U.S., are continuing a relatively sophisticated process of analyzing U.S.-Soviet realities...
Motion? It is not the first word to come to mind when one looks at the ritual masks, figures and fetishes in the show called "African Art in Motion" now on display in Washington, D.C. Locked in the National Gallery's glass cases, chastely spotlighted, such objects are seen by the Western eye as immobile, like any other sculpture...
...chicken and spareribs and sit down and eat. Whites rarely dance. But dancing is the big reason for going to a black party. You see mamas and papas and soul brothers and sisters all dancing. Black parties are more fun than white parties because they are not a social ritual. They are for having a good time -and whatever you do, nobody will hold it against you the next...