Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After shaking hands all round, he talked quietly but optimistically for 20 minutes about the state of his campaign. Then he answered questions for half an hour. What about tax reform, inheritance taxes, property taxes, defense cuts? Most of his questioners already knew the answers, but the gift-giving ritual requires that they hear it from the man. Later they could tell friends: "As George McGovern told me last night. . . " Not once did McGovern mention money. He thanked them, smiled and left...
...members today, including at least 100,000 in the U.S. It was the founding force and remains the sustaining power behind Japan's third largest political party, the Komeito (Clean Government) Party. Its formula for success, both personal and collective, is simple: the relentless chanting of a brief ritual prayer before replicas of the sect's treasured Dai-Gohonzon, a camphorwood tablet inscribed with mystic symbols by a 13th century monk named Nichiren...
...never given a prix, and usually most of the movies-this year more than half of the 24 selections-have been booked into American theaters anyway. Thus the New York festival, now in its tenth year, is primarily a social occasion. It has become an annual two-week ritual for movie buffs to gather in the lobbies of Lincoln Center, trade gossip, champion favorite films and, inevitably, castigate the witlessness of the selection committee, whose choices, nevertheless, were both diverse enough and shrewd enough to guarantee sellout houses. Among the more notable...
Concerned that the remaining staff was too small to provide the University with all the news, Decherd returned to the Stadium, and began an elaborate ritual, beseeching his teammates to forgive and forget. "Deacon," he yelied across the grid through a makeshift bullhorn rolled out of Saturday's issue. "How are we going to fill the sports page...
...master of Go is a living anachronism in the aggressive Japan of the years just before World War II. He plays the game in the old courtly way, making it a ritual as steeped in aristocratic value as the Japanese tea ceremony or the No drama. His young challenger, a fine player and engaging fellow, nevertheless embodies the raw modern spirit. His game is tense and cheerless, "an inexorable gnawing...