Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flat. In something more than ritual confirmation of that theme, George Wallace was hoisted in his wheelchair onto the stage to present his defiantly divergent opinions on the party platform. He attempted a joke about having attended one too many political rallies this year; when it fell flat, he knew he was not among his "folks," but the McGovern delegates treated Wallace courteously, as they had been instructed to do and as their leader had promised the Alabaman they would. Only when Wal lace began damning welfare and busing were the few cheers from Florida and other delegations answered with...
...Paris peace table, amid fresh speculation that both China and the Soviet Union have been pressing Hanoi to settle the war. Even the expected denunciations of American "imperialism" that Fidel Castro voiced in Moscow last week as he ended a ten-day visit to the Soviet Union seemed more ritual than rage. The suspicion persists that a U.S.-Cuban reconciliation is not out of the question -especially in light of a recent remark by Castro that "there is no such thing as a permanent enemy...
...amazed, Spassky agreed to go ahead with the match. Late last week the champion and the challenger met to decide who would begin play with the white pieces, which have the first move. Upon seeing Fischer, Spassky warmly grasped him with both hands. Then, in a time-honored ritual, the champion put a white pawn in one hand and a black pawn in the other, juggled them behind his back and then extended his closed fists toward Fischer. Hunching over, Bobby pointed to Boris' right hand. Smiling, the champion opened his hand to show that the challenger had chosen...
...delegate strength pared, at least for the present, down to well below 1,300 -far short of the 1,509 needed for nomination. Suddenly Hubert Humphrey was politically alive again. So, for that matter, were Edmund Muskie and any number of dark horses. What had promised to be a ritual endorsement next week at Miami Beach now loomed as a bitter and potentially fratricidal collision of McGovern insurgents and party regulars. The clash could cause a party schism that could destroy the Democrats' chances for victory against Richard Nixon in November...
...just what products can emerge when a modern novelist sets about writing one. Spring Snow is the first installment of Yukio Mishima's latest fictional testament. Three more volumes will follow, the final one delivered to the publisher only a day before the author killed himself by ritual disembowelment (seppuku) after his bizarre attempt to foment an uprising in the Japanese army a year and a half...