Word: ritualization
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...Hers was a red-tailed snake named Luna. We stroked it. We were ready for anything. It was our last Saturday night as college students, and we had chosen to spend it at a peculiar ritual, the midnight meeting of cinema and fishnet stockings and social castoffs that is known as “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” But first we needed our tickets, and answer if Luna the snake could...
...wife, or faith, to lose; I could hope for a view-altering experience without fear. But the unholy ritual at Loews channeled less Hawthorne’s Salem than the New England of my day. Which is to say, Harvard...
Social workers at Jerusalem's shelter for battered Haredi women say that family violence often erupts during the ritual Shabbat dinner, when all children are gathered - tempers flare over mundane arguments and the husband strikes his wife. A wife may endure such treatment for years. But the number of women who call a 24-hour hotline for battered Haredi women has jumped from 477 calls in 2004 to 1,402 last year. Social workers attribute the increase to a new generation of rabbis urging women to speak out against domestic violence...
...epicenter. That was when the entire country paused for three minutes to remember the dead. Traffic came to a halt, flags were lowered to half staff and Chinese everywhere stood in oft tearful silence. Drivers honked car horns and factories blared their sirens in mass keening. The ritual marked the start of three days of national mourning during which Internet activities such as online gaming were halted and all TV channels except those broadcasting news were blacked...
...came to a halt, flags were lowered to half-mast, and Chinese everywhere stood in oft tearful silence to honor the victims of the Wenchuan quake, named for the county at its epicenter. Drivers honked their horns, and factories sounded their sirens in a collective wail of agony. The ritual marked the start of three days of national mourning, during which Internet activities like online gaming were halted and all TV channels except those broadcasting news were blacked...