Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some elected (in a controlled fashion) and some appointed (in an even more controlled fashion), the delegates were essentially of one mind before they convened. But they went through almost two weeks of carefully orchestrated ritual and ceremony before finally reaching their unanimous choice: the incumbent President, General Suharto...
...becomes a matter of table-manners and unnecessary ritual. "You just don't talk about those things at the table" -- I know because they've never talked about those things at any table I've been at. "They don't need to meet that formally anyway" -- I know because I can talk to my friends at dinner or any time. "Sure, women are outratioed and over-pressured, but this thing can get blown up out of all proportion. Maybe a women's table is O.K., but taking over a whole dining hall is a little bit too much...
...ritual, deliberate sinning, of the afternoon cigarette and beer begins. Her ritual of reorienting herself to this place of odd noises and smells. She snaps the radio on. The jive soul station. The jive rap of a jive brother, and the ditty-bop love songs. It all soothes over her current terror with pastel washes of nostalgia. Except sometimes the bouncing bass of the dj, startling her with its abrasive masculinity. Making her remember. Discord...
ZWICK HAS FORMED an elaborate refrain of dance and eerie choral ritual. The cast leaps around the stage in simple leotard costumes as it enacts the joy of conquest of the pain of death, reciting biblical passages. Then the actors stop dead in their tracks, while one or two characters speak. A mounting dirge of Hebrew mourning songs is especially provocative...
...when, at a college in Marin County where it played a sell-out run to standing ovation crowds, it was performed in Kabuki style and dress. Since then it has been a bit different at every run (this is to be its fifth). Here the genre is undefinable: some ritual-like dances and primitive-looking celebrations resemble an orgiastic Zoroastrean ceremony, others are solemn and formal. Schwartz, who says that his play works best when least Biblical in tone, is pleased with this...