Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Week after week, the networks delayed their annual ritual of announcing the new fall schedules. Was some major policy shift in the offing? Were the congressional hearings on TV violence being taken to heart? Apparently not. When the final schedules were revealed last week, the delays seemed merely a result of the usual intramural poker game. All three networks are holding new hands, but the viewer is getting the same old deal...
There are other familiar examples of the nonverbal remedial ritual. To hide her embarrassment at having to go to the bathroom, a girl at a party sometimes uses broad swimming motions to cut her way through a knot of guests obstructing her route. In Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, out "hunting" with a friend, is startled by something innocuous and jumps involuntarily. To show he really isn't frightened he jumps up and down several more times in "an exercising sort...
...Talmud is the great body of Jewish legal and ritual commentary recorded between 300 B.C. and A.D. 500 and continuously refined by Jewish scholars ever since. Based on the Torah (the five books of Moses that make up the beginning of the Bible), it is Judaism's most authoritative source, after the Torah, and its greatest literary achievement. *Regular kosher, for example, allows animals to be eaten whose lungs are scarred from old internal injuries: glutt kosher requires the lungs to be completely smooth...
Jews in this group may be completely secular?even atheist?or sometimes members of a denomination like Reform Judaism. They simply do not feel that formal ritual or denominational affiliation is crucial. Though a rabbi himself, Philadelphia's Jacob Chinitz insists that "it is membership in the Jewish people that ties a Jew to Judaism, not his membership in a synagogue...
Save for the novelty of its setting, the script would not pass muster on day time television. Occasionally Director Tom Gries (Will Penny) turns his camera onto an Indian ritual, but without any discernible insight or feeling. Miss Racimo passes the time being cuddlesome, and Tabori is convincingly offesive as Danny. Robert Forster's performance is proof positive that, all rumors to the contrary, they're still making cigar-store Indians...