Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This summer, I interned at a magazine in New York. Part of my daily ritual would be to buy my breakfast at Au Bon Pain and eat it while reading a newspaper that I bought at the newsstand off the subway. To me, that's tradition: eating breakfast while reading the Metro section. One day a woman with whom I worked, looked at me, seemingly puzzled by what I was doing. She said, "I can't believe that you still read the paper. Time has changed, just read it on the computer like everyone else." I am only 21 years...
...discriminatory manner; all religious denominations who request space or funds should be treated equally, though the grants themselves should be in proportion to the scale of the ceremony. Additionally, the ceremonies, serving as they do not just co-religionists but the house community, should attempt to teach ritual and meaning...
...would no longer be allowed. A rash of fires had damaged University property and had put other students at risk. The proposed change, however, provides that a public space, like a Junior Common Room or a dining hall, be set aside for Jewish students to perform the candle lighting ritual...
Around the same time, a Crimson reporter referred to the traditional Korean music performed at an ethnic studies rally as "banging on drums and metal lids." An astute reader complained that such a description seemed like an anthropological description of a Martian ritual and not a celebration of the heritage of Harvard's Korean-Americans...
...have taught them what is the best kind of sandpaper to keep their uniform brass tarnish free, the most effective bug repellent (knobs are not permitted to scratch in public), the most reliable alarm clocks and the most durable T shirts. They will also be mentally prepared for the ritual hazing, designed to remind cadets that the military has no room for free spirits. As Henry Woods, class of '67, told an incoming group recently, "Remember, once you enter the Citadel you are the same. You should not stand...