Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times a year, high school students converge on test centers nationwide for a fearsome academic ritual: the Scholastic Aptitude Test, which helps determine where tens of thousands of students will go to college. In theory, there is little that students can do to prepare for the dread day, since the S.A.T. supposedly measures innate ability, not learned skills. In practice, however, more students each year desperately cram for the S.A.T.s. A third of public and private schools in the Northeast now offer some sort of S.A.T. preparation course. Elsewhere around the country, thousands of nervous scholars flock to commercial coaching...
...nice place to visit, but not many journalists managed to live there. Fifteen editorial employees were fired or forced out, including Managing Editor John Durniak; Executive Editor Marianne Partridge resigned after five issues. For a time, new sackings seemed to come at the end of every week, a ritual that became known around the magazine's Manhattan offices as "Black Friday...
After lunch there is the ritual known as the walk. If the hickory, pine and bobolinks that grace the center's 15 acres are not enough, there is what may be termed the reality walk. A peripatetic scholar will stroll to the end of the center's private road and scuff pebbles along Alexander Drive while authentic truck drivers roar past. Then, with perspective restored and the latest Alice-Lucy masterpiece well on the road to digestion, it's back to the study. Or to a seminar. There are four ongoing seminars meeting this year, rather forbiddingly...
Shortly after he took office in December, Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira, following a ritual established by his predecessors, scheduled a trip to Washington to clear up what he thought would be some minor issues. As it happened, Ohira's visit to the U.S. last week took place in an atmosphere of tension and ill will caused by the growing confrontation between the U.S. and Japan over trade...
...Myth and Ritual in Africa," Marie Jeanne Adams...