Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the worst was past was reinforced by Patolichev's nonchalant response to a newsman's question: Was President Nixon's May 22 summit visit to Moscow still on? "We never had any doubts about it. I don't know why you asked." There were ritual denunciations of the U.S. from Moscow and Peking. But while the language was harsh, no specific action was threatened. At week's end Hanoi's negotiators in Paris even seemed willing to talk peace some more, although still on their own restrictive terms...
...past 23 years, visits to Manhattan by London's Royal Ballet have become a springtime ritual. In most cases, the company's programming has become ritualistic too: 19th century warhorses like Swan Lake and Giselle, plus a generous dash of contemporary works like The Dream and The Two Pigeons by the Royal's longtime director Sir Frederick Ashton...
...mildly pointless ritual underscored old questions: Can international law have any real value in limiting armed conflict? Do the complex doctrines of law simply disguise the fact that might makes right? Could the doctrines work if they were generally observed-or enforced...
Paris' emotions are much possessed by death. From his early Buchenwald illustrations to his latest environments, Paris remains a poet of ritual and mortality: he has even been known to bury an invisible sculpture sealed in a black coffin as part of a happening, and one large environmental piece at Berkeley, Pantomima Illuma (1966), is a kind of tomb, a black chamber with soft walls and eerie pencils of light on ambiguous, fleshy bits of sculpture. Paris' work is that of a rich and disordered temperament, which manages to be both heavily serious and slightly glib...
Along with cherry blossoms, spring in Japan brings an annual labor offensive conducted with all the stylized ritual of a tea ceremony. Unions make impossibly high demands; management counters with an unrealistically low offer-and just before a strike is called, the two sides meet somewhere more or less in the middle. But this year, with the economy still muddling along in a recession, management let it be known that it was in no mood for bargaining games, while labor demanded even more than the usual raise as a reward for past years of hard work. Instead of picking...