Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country and to its leaders. He talked for more than an hour with Premier Pham Van Dong "who's really running the country," and with the Foreign Minister and a colonel on General Giap's staff. They were, he says, forthright and "very courteous," except for their ritual charges of genocide and their use of propaganda phraseology. On his last night, North Vietnamese officials laid on a banquet of "a number of dishes, two of which were dog, which is a delicacy in North and South Viet Nam," and which he interpreted as an indication of their special...
...ceremoniously washed and then kissed the feet of twelve Roman Catholic seminarians. It was a symbolic re-enactment of the Last Supper, at which Jesus, according to John, washed the feet of the Twelve Apostles as a sign that he was both the servant and Lord of mankind. The ritual, which was devised in medieval times, is carried out once a year at major cathedrals. In Rome, however, it was dropped at the death of Pope Pius IX in 1878; John XXIII revived the custom in 1959, and it has been performed in the Eternal City ever since...
...March 29, 1952, 16 years and two days before Lyndon Johnson served his notice of noncandidacy, Harry S. Truman appeared at Washington's National Guard Armory, where some 6,000 Democrats had collected for a ritual $100-a-plate Jefferson-Jackson Day dinner. For months, the nation had been speculating about whether Truman, at 67, would run for re-election to a second full term, and as the President launched into a give-'em-hell harangue, partisans at the dinner smiled that Old Harry was off and running again...
Next to putting the cat out and kissing the wife goodnight, the most common late-evening ritual for many Americans is tuning in the TV weather forecast. Just about every TV station in the nation has its own weatherman nowadays, but the trouble with a great number of them is that they are cloudy and mostly windy...
...curtain calls. The reviews were more divided. Hans Stuckenschmidt, Germany's leading music critic, wrote that "the performance counts among the best that one can see and hear today in European theaters." But Der Spiegel scoffed that the opera sounded like "a prehistoric equinoctial celebration of a voodoo ritual...