Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Montgomery pointedly ask visitors, 'How do y'll lahk our state?" Correct answers may win handshakes with Governer Brewer ("he ain't a Wallace, but he's a good man") or small "Wallace in 68" buttons. In gas stations and greasy cafes all over the state, the same ritual goes one. "You from out of state? What y'll doin' round here? How you lahk it here?" The ritual has an important purpose: about half the people who come to Alabama are Southern Hospitality-seekers; the other half are rotten no-good trouble-making kids. Each half will get what...
...familiar. "Why don't you get out of our town--why don't you go back where you belong. We hate you so much. We want you to stay away. We don't want you and your white nigger friends comin' here." Just one line was missing from the ritual, and it came in a minute. "We're gettin' just about ready to kill us one of you nigger lovers. You think we should kill you?" No thank you. Two of them who were holding my arms took up the refrain. "We're gonna kill one of you guys...
Dumped. Despite his exalted ranking, Takamiyama still has a lot to learn about technique, as his match with Taiho proved. Following sumo's ancient ritual, the two giants prepared for battle -rinsing their mouths with water to purify their souls, stamping their feet to frighten away evil spirits, tossing handfuls of salt to sanctify the dirt ring, holding out their arms to show that they had no concealed weapons. After that, they simply stared at each other for several minutes. Only then, with a wave of his fan, did the referee signal for the fight to begin...
...really up to can perhaps best be seen-or rather heard-in Glossolalia. He uses the mystical notion of speaking in tongues as a pointed metaphor in his guerrilla war against static literary forms. More a soothsayer's scripture than prose fiction, the piece mimics the ancient ritual that attempts to divine the truth with spontaneous word patterns and nonsense syllables. Concludes Barth: "The sense-lessest babble, could we ken it, might disclose a dark message, or prayer...
While the national news media muddles through its quadrennial ritual, a political conspiracy involving hundreds of thousands has gone unreported this fall...