Word: ritualization
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Carrie and Suj, as they're known, beam through much of the ceremony--their second, having already celebrated a Hindu ritual the week before--but the rest of the 140 people present, Pastor Paulson included, are fighting back tears. In the congregation, wearing expressions of awe and envy, are half a dozen friends from the National Down Syndrome Congress, which holds an annual meeting for adults with DS. Bergeron and Desai met at one of those sessions two years ago. ("I told my mom I wanted to date her," Desai recalls. "I was shy. I couldn't say anything...
Sonora Smart Dodd was listening to a sermon on self-sacrifice when she decided that her father, a widower who had raised six children, deserved his very own national holiday. Almost a century later, people all over the world spend the third Sunday in June honoring their fathers with ritual offerings of aftershave and neckties, which leads millions of fathers to have precisely the same thought at precisely the same moment: "My children," they think in unison, "make me happy...
...John Paul may very well get the nod even faster, especially if all the prayers have a say. On Friday evening, the new pope encouraged young people in Krakow to continue their ritual of praying for John Paul's sainthood the second day of every month, at the hour of his death, saying that the ritual "supports those working on his Cause." Benedict told the crowd Saturday in the central square of Wadowice that he will be praying that John Paul's sainthood comes "soon." That got big cheers from the hometown crowd, chants of "We Thank You! We Thank...
...Shope said. In an e-mail response written under condition of anonymity, one of the students, who was part of the study group that completed the problems on the 2004 final exam, wrote that working on old exams was “a standard finals period ritual.” The group “realized that there was a strong correlation between the old exam questions and the otherwise tangential topics discussed in the review section,” the student wrote. But the student said that after completing the 2004 final exam, “some friends...
...somehow remedy the system,” Shope said. One of the students who was part of the study group that completed the problems on the 2004 final exam wrote in an e-mail that working on old exams was “a standard finals period ritual.” The student wrote to The Crimson on the condition of anonymity. The group “realized that there was a strong correlation between the old exam questions and the otherwise tangential topics discussed in the review section,” the student wrote. The student also said that...