Word: ritualization
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...someone asks you if you’re going to the Jam on Saturday night, just say “no.” Use your House courtyard to build a bonfire of your all-male a cappella CDs, and encourage your friends to join in the quasi-cathartic ritual. These organizations survive only because we allow them to, so it is our responsibility to see to it that they never again enjoy our affections and attention...
...indulgent lingerie fix, go to Boutique Princesse Tam Tam (53, Rue Bonaparte), and look for late-January sales. Sunday-morning ritual? Walk and shop the thriving March Biologique (Boulevard Raspail, between Rue de Rennes and Rue du Cherche-Midi). Here amid the cheese and mushrooms are cashmere shawls, Panama hats and herb-infused bath salts. I never leave without buying the best latke--here it's called a galette--I ever ate: grated potato, onion and cheese all sizzled and crusty...
...same time, however, Oxnam's private life was falling apart. He suffered from alcoholism and bulimia and flew into frequent, irrational rages. Several nights a week, as he admits in his courageous new memoir, A Fractured Mind (Hyperion; 285 pages), he performed what he calls his addiction ritual. "It required," he writes, "two packs of cigarettes, Polish sausage, a gallon of ice cream, a two-pound bag of peanuts, a bottle of scotch, and a pornographic movie...
...Harvard College’s biannual traditions will go the way of the slide rule this fall, as registration day—the ritual gathering of every College student in Harvard Yard to sign cards acclaiming their presence on campus—migrates to cyberspace...
...When the nine Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court meet to discuss and vote on cases on Friday mornings [and also sometimes on Wednesdays and Thursdays], they begin with the simple ritual of shaking hands. Then they sit down to decide on some of the nation's most sensitive, sometimes most divisive issues. No reporter, no lobbyist, no aide, not even a messenger is allowed in the paneled conference room. THE JUSTICES ARE LEFT ALONE TO ARGUE THE LAW, THEIR PRINCIPLES, THEIR CONSCIENCES. Theirs is not an abstract debate: comfortably hazy concepts like 'liberty' and 'equality' must be applied...