Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cruel fights over children occur most often in cases of divorce. More than 750,000 marriages end that way every year, affecting more than a million children. Courts go through at least a ritual of concern for what is best for the children, and recently judges have become slightly less automatic in granting custody to the mother. Still "the rights of children in divorce cases have been virtually ignored," says Marie Kargman, an attorney who works with the Massachusetts Advisory Council on Home and Family. "Rights to property or continuity of residence have never been defined." When a child inherits...
...past few years, the look of vestments used in Christian ritual has changed. Chief reason is the democratization of the Catholic Church. Vestments once had a hierarchic purpose: the presence of the priest at a raised altar, draped in a chasuble thick with gold and silver embroidery, stiff and heavy as oxhide, glittering in the taper light, symbolized the spiritual distance between God's minister and his people. Costume is a basic way of preserving differences. Moreover, since the priest stood between the faithful and the altar, mostly with his back to the congregation, his full height...
...long invested the simple and necessary act of taking in nourishment with heavy ritual. Therefore, it is fitting that one of the kinkiest divisions in the army of culinary skeptics, the health-food addicts, should operate with almost religious conviction. Believing that good health, not to mention beauty, longevity and even sexual potency, depend on the proper foods, they spurn most pre-packaged products. Instead they insist upon vegetables grown in soil that has been enriched with manure rather than chemical fertilizers, meat from animals raised without growth-stimulating hormones, bread from which no grain particles have been removed...
...Magnon man was using ceremonial, ritual sacrificial and sexual images in engravings," he said yesterday...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH, "Ritual in Transfigured Time" by Maya Deren. "Nightcats" and "Thigh Line Lyre Triangular" by Stan Brakhage, "Wait" by Ernie Gehr. "Institutional Quality" by Landow, "66" and "70" by Breer. "Valentine de ias Sierras" by Baillie, "Catalog" and "Permutations" by John Whitney...