Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just a few aberrant personalities like Hirasaki who frolic around the houses half-dressed (or undressed). Some entire sub-groups embrace nudity as a bonding ritual. The First-year Outdoor Program, in particular, has a reputation for exhibitionistic excess...
...party where four men and one woman, wearing bobby socks, penny loafers and a red scrunchy in her hair, danced completely naked. When I brought up the subject in a later conversation, the person next to me said "Oh. FOP people were there." Although skinny-dipping is a ritual part of the FOP experience, some FOPpies like to preserve the magic by getting naked whenever they're together...
...life at Harvard for all. Theancient Canaanites believed that proper worship ofBaal required that the worshippers engage insacred orgiastic rites to ensure the rhythmiccycle of nature. While the causal link is unclearanyone can see the benefits this kind of activitywould offer sex-starved Harvard students. Offeringlibations to Baal--the ritual pouring of alcoholicbeverages--couldn't hurt Harvard social lifeeither. At the same time, Baal would provide amore plausible mascot for our sports teams thanthe UC's ill-fated John Harvard look-alike...
...chem or physics classes that I told her I was taking: I have no clue what's going on in them! And I certainly can't tell her the truth. She'd freak if she knew I've been taking classes with titles like "Eddic Mythology" and "Ritual and Metaphor in Greek Songs of the Life Cycle." She's wanted me to be a doctor forever, Norma. She sent me to pre-med camp when I was in second grade! What am I going to do? Crazed in Cabot...
...slow news day, okay?) The church intended Valentine's Day to supplant a popular fertility rite of the pagan god Lupercus, who was associated with "joy, abundance and sexual freedom." Joy, abundance and sexual freedom sound a lot more entertaining to me than the current, more greeting-card-driven ritual, but then I'm not Roman Catholic and may be missing out on religious significance et cetera...