Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real breakthrough came on Oct. 8, as Kissinger arrived at a spacious villa used by the North Vietnamese near the town of Rambouillet, 28 miles southwest of Paris, for this 19th meeting with Le Due Tho. The North Vietnamese began the quiet Sunday-morning session with a ritual demand for a political settlement, and then asked for a two-hour break. Kissinger spent the time walking through the surrounding oak and beech forests, pondering what would come next. The setting had the kind of historical cachet that delights Kissinger. It was at Rambouillet, with its 14th century chateau, once...
...support had a narrow base. His Cultural Revolution directorate included only his private secretary, his wife, his former bodyguard and few others of note. What really counted, as always, was his godlike status. He took pains to enhance it with Little Red Books, parades and ritual. This worked so well that when Mao was forced to take the desperate step of calling out the troops, he could still pretend that the country was well on the way to a Communist Utopia...
...they move with the grace and ceremonial formality of traditional Japanese etiquette. No one says hello or bids good-bye, pays a compliment or enters a room, without bowing politely to show respect, or even deep affection. These motions raise the most ordinary pastimes to a kind of cherished ritual. The langorous physical actions and static facial expressions actually serve to heighten one's awareness of constant tension. For even at the most peaceful moments, fans tremble incessantly in the hands of the actors, attempting to dispell what must be the sweltering heat of summer, and to relieve the friction...
...regulate and suppress discourses, a number of possible projects with which we can expect to see Foucault continue his work. One such project might be an investigation of concepts of sexuality as expressed in linguistic taboos and their changes. Another, at an even more basic level, might investigate how ritual discourse in the time of Socrates, Plato, and the Sophists arranged itself into a division between true and false discourse, each with its own uses...
...convinced of Mormonism's truthfulness to back out, even though the restriction still galls him. Another young Mormon black, Eugene Orr, is distressed that unlike other Mormon fathers, he will be unable to baptize his own son when the youngster is eight and ready for the ritual. "I am not about to hand my child over to a white man to bless him," insists Orr, but he sticks by Mormonism all the same. "You wonder why we continue in the church?" he asks. "It's because I know that this is the true church. And truth is truth...