Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pleasure of reading the same book at the same time. This spring we discovered Harry Potter together--reading back and forth from our one copy. I hadn't really shared a book with her since those early days, when I was the reluctant performer in our nightly reading ritual. Finally my daughter has discovered the interior joy of reading. And I'm thankful that she's passed...
...terms. Its players are the most acrobatic, if not always the most proficient. Brazilian teams play with a contagious exuberance. When those yellow shirts go on the attack--which is most of the time--and their fans cheer to the intoxicating beat of samba bands, soccer becomes a ritual of fluidity and grace. In Pele's day, the Brazilians epitomized soccer as fantasy...
...these events have not always included Scorpion Bowls--the Kong's drink of choice. Though the Class Day ritual has always been festive, it is also the product of continual evolution...
...central aspect of the event was "cheering the tree," but unfortunately, no description of this ritual has survived...
...little too radical for some. Ronald Sobel, senior rabbi at Temple Emanu-El, New York City's largest Reform synagogue, says that in elevating ritual to parity with ethics, the guidelines constitute "a distortion of the uniqueness of Reform Judaism." Since the principles are not compulsory, they will continue to be debated by Reform Jews everywhere. But after the measure passed in Pittsburgh, the "for" voters linked arms with the "against" voters, and all joined in the traditional prayer song Shehechiyanu. The words are Hebrew. Everybody knew them...