Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power-mustering capacity of blacks in the socioeconomic sphere. The existential dimension provides a defense against the culture's adversaries and propagates self-security within the culture. The functional and existential components of black culture are based on the historical experience of blacks, but the latter emphasizes the black ritual tradition. The ritual tradition of blacks is the inherited pattern of symbolic response to various societal phenomena...
...needs religion and ritual, and the recent cult of parapsychology has produced an impressive clergy...
...spent part of my childhood expecting to be a master, but I turned out a patzer all the same. At first, I thought chess was some strange ritual, played only by my father and the close relatives who visited us on special occasions. But once my father saw fit to teach me the moves, I began to progress rapidly. My book learning was limited to a book by Fred Reinfield, which outlined the moves, and a few of Reinfields's favorite mates...
...have those lists locked away in the dean's desk. Now it could be sure that no wild-eyed students would try to perpetuate the system or burn the lists and make the pass/fail grades permanent. It was no sacrifice to allow the students to continue their numbering ritual through finals; everything would be set right at the next faculty meeting...
...confidence was received last week by Queen Elizabeth on the royal yacht Britannia, lying at anchor in Auckland's Waitemata Harbor. The Prime Minister requested Her Majesty to dissolve Parliament and grant permission for a general election to be held Feb. 28. The Queen quickly cabled her ritual assent and returned to her royal tour of New Zealand...