Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There are. A closer glance at the lawn reveals that the grass ritual is not borne of practical necessity, but that Harvard nonetheless has a vested interest in maintaining the perfect condition of the Yard...
...Amazing, really, what a brief scrutiny of the grass replacement ritual reveals lurking just below the topsoil. The superficial concerns about our Yard are, of course, both abundant and well founded. Everyone can see that it's ugly. Some people have found that it smells bad. At 10 minutes past the hour, the impossibility of running in a straight line over it to Sever Hall is cursed by all and sundry. But now the inner as well as the outer blemishes on our lawns can be shown. Now the grass can be understood. We may still sigh in resignation when...
...fifth inning of Cuba's 12-6 ritual Bird slaughter on Monday night, an anti-Castro fan sprinted onto the field holding a sign that read, "Freedom--Strike Out Against Castro." Cuban second base umpire "Julio" Cesar Valdez took exception, to say the least...
...police "interrogation," to the murder charges filed in a hostile courtroom, to their returning home under house arrest--and the mobs of journalists camped outside their homes for weeks. Even today nightmares haunt the boys, according to their friends and relatives, and school days have become a dreaded ritual of taunting, fights and confrontation with youths who tease them about the murder. The younger boy, who once wore his hair in tightly braided corn-rows, cut them off after seeing a sketch of himself on the TV news. "These boys were deliberately framed for this crime," says Pincham. "Sure...
There is a strange inversion which occurs whenthose who would see Hemingway's writing as mereform assume a total merging of form and meaning inthe bravado and masculine ritual thatcharacterized Hemingway's writing and his cult ofpersonality: it is imagined that what appearsadolescent and foolish is merely adolescent andfoolish, driven by the same insecurities thatdrive adolescents. Thus there is only scorn forthe behavior described by Malcolm Cowley in 1925,just a year after the publication of Hemingway'sfirst full-length collection of short stories...