Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Juan Corona's hands convulsively grabbed the defense table as he heard the jury's verdict on the first count: "Guilty." Then, for nearly half an hour, the ritual went on. The judge read out the name of a murdered farm worker, then intoned the jury's verdict: "Guilty of murder in the first degree." Each time -25 times, the number of victims in the worst series of murders in U.S. history the jury responded in unison: "Yes." At the sixth or seventh count. Corona's wife Gloria broke into sobs. When it was over...
Each New Year's week means the same ritual for rock fans: AM radio playing the Big 100 Super Hits, rock critics pondering their definitive Top Ten albums, and heavy debates' at intimate parties turning to. "Who do you think's going to be the next Beatles...
...some have a talent for the business. But even the talented came up the hard way--word-brick by word-brick--until they were eventually able to combine their God-given talent with plain hard work to reach a most enviable position. This all sounds like rough, rugged ritual--and it is just that...
...instinctively dislikes rough, rugged ritual should never attempt to become a writer--or anything else. In all walks of life we read of the topmost men in this country, or any country, whose proudest boast is that they "came up the hard way"--through their dogged study and application of the three r's--and they don't mean just reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic. Anything worth while is worth fighting for and if we lack intestinal fortitude we had better resign ourselves to sitting in Widener and admiring the derring-do of such giants as King Arthur, Walter Lippmann...
...words are deprived of the deep adenoidal torque that Art Van Harvey, as Vic, used to put on them. But a true believer can be reduced to the helpless laughter of a hyena in a feather factory by some scenes. At one point, Vic is memorizing the opening ritual for his lodge meeting. Rush is checking and prompting him from a copy made by Miss Gregg, Vic's secretary. The following exchange takes place...