Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good things must come to an end. At midnight, long after the last beads had been thrown, the bars were closed and the cops kicked everyone out of the French Quarter--an annual ritual. I packed my suitcase and headed for the airport early the next morning. Fat Tuesday was over and Ash Wednesday was upon...
Baseball's spring training kicked off this week, and, as is tradition, dozens of authors and poets have already begun to put pen to paper to describe the spring ritual...
...neither the Attorney General nor any other Cabinet officer will anytime in the near future have to countenance any cuts--draconian or otherwise--as a result of the amendment, which, as part of a new yearly ritual, will come to a vote in the Senate this Tuesday. It is not that the balanced budget amendment will not pass the Senate by the required two-thirds majority (the odds are about even on that), nor is it that the proposal wouldn't carry the 38 states necessary for ratification (it probably would); the Balanced Budget Amendment, if passed, will never result...
...statute, the Amendment will have an undeniable authority. In fact, it will only reduce a piece of the Consitution to the same laughable level of importance as Gramm-Rudman. If there were a truth-in-naming law for legislation, the BBA should in fact be named the Yearly-Perfunctory-Ritual agreement. As Congress fails to meet the budget targets mandated by the amendment, taxpayers will be treated to yet another annual showdown, like those that often accompany the passage of the budget. A two-fifths minority (not difficult to collect) will attempt to force concessions by threatening to force concessions...
...last year, I touched on this point by describing my most inspiring Valentine's Day memory--of my mother's annual Valentine's Day breakfasts. They easily put any Harvard Dining Services effort to shame--both in decorations and savory delights (not to mention my family's card-reading ritual). And last year, while many of my fellow editors lamented over their recent romantic foibles or reminisced about their fourth-grade kisses behind the oak tree, I explained how blood (the color of valentines) is thicker than water...