Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scene was repeated four days later. This time the protest was scheduled to coincide with Qingming, a festival in which Chinese offer respect to the dead by sweeping their graves. To ensure that the ritual did not turn into a mass tribute to the hundreds, perhaps thousands, who perished in the massacre of demonstrators last June, authorities ordered that Beijing's cemeteries admit only those with death certificates that proved their loved ones had died within the past year. Citizens were warned to avoid any display of black armbands or white flowers associated with mourning. "We were not only told...
Monster appropriately opens with the the company's choreographed performance of what appears to be a Celtic birth ritual. This is a play mainly about birth, death and the symbolism surrounding them in sixth century Celtic culture. The vocabulary through which the complex themes of the play surface is often mytho-poetic...
...annual ritual, Publishers Weekly has tallied up the book figures for the year past, and the numbers make it look like a very good vintage. Sales in the U.S. jumped 11%, to $14.7 billion. Four novels sold more than 1 million ; copies each, and 63 passed the 100,000-copy plateau, far eclipsing the old record of 52 in 1987. But amid all this dusty bookkeeping lurks some astonishing information...
...impossible to know exactly how many Catholic exorcisms occur these days, since, as one priest observes, "It's not a thing people talk about." In the ritual, a priest places his hand on a person's forehead and recites the prescribed words: "I cast you out, unclean spirit, along with every satanic power of the enemy, every specter from hell, and all your fell companions, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." In addition to such ritual bouts, Catholic priests are occasionally called upon to pronounce blessings to ward off weird and possibly sinister occurrences. Just two weeks...
...define it. "He sees the game conceptually. He sees the whole game and the whole court, and he sees it in the context of the entire season." The writer John McPhee puts it in a different context. "Pete has a matador's view of basketball. It is a ritual, an art, a series of set pieces, one following the other like a series of slides." Yet George Leftwich, a gifted offensive player at Villanova, currently a college coach, is occasionally puzzled. He has asked his son George Jr., a starting guard on this year's Princeton team, to explain...