Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...live in a turn-of-the-century house where the dining room is bigger than the living room. This suggests that family meals together were once an important ritual. They provided cross-generational contact, practice in civil conversation and early experience in intimate socialization. ELIZABETH MURTAUGH Winnetka, Illinois...
There's no excuse for the yearly tide of HSTO-related problems. By this time, the telephone service's administrators should have some idea of what to expect from the annual ritual. Perhaps next year will be better. Of course, some of us won't be around to enjoy...
...barn at his Long Island, New York, home. When he needs a break, he likes to go downstairs to his carpentry shop, where he builds furniture. "I find the action of hand-planing extremely soothing," he says. "It zoids you out." After lunch he takes a long nap, a ritual he began in 1964 following a trip to Italy. "God help anybody who tries to reach me between 2 and 5 in the afternoon," he laughs...
...with his advisers by phone and tries to be in bed by 10:30. The Doles socialize sparingly, usually just with a few close friends for an occasional dinner. Weekends are punctuated more by work than play; the couple go for walks, go to church and enjoy a ritual Sunday brunch...
...quality," comments Bryce Nelson, interim chairman of the University of Southern California school of journalism and a former L.A. Times reporter. At New York Newsday, some staff members are bitter because they maintain the paper would have been in the black by next year. "They wanted to do a ritual slaughter for the amusement of Wall Street. They've done it, and the 80 children of the Chandler family made lots of money," says Jim Dwyer, a New York Newsday columnist who was unsuccessful in negotiating an employee buyout...