Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ritual of most British television commentators is as fixed and inflexible as the Nelson Monument, and it calls for a straight face and unwavering tone before even the obvious follies of the mighty. The broadcaster who established the form was the late Richard Dimbleby, the eloquent voice of Britain whose specialty was such sonorous events as the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill. Last week Dimbleby the Second - Richard's 30-year-old son David - revised the ritual for the BBC. To mark Richard Nixon's visit to Britain, he gave...
...technique of the takeover ranges all the way from polite negotiation to sneak attack. If the takeover is a friendly seduction, it usually follows a rather elaborate ritual. The first contact is often arranged by investment bankers, who stand to collect fees of up to $1,000,000 for arranging the merger. The potential partners usually meet at a country club or on some other neutral ground. They size each other up stiffly and uneasily; drinks are practically never served. If extreme secrecy is necessary, the top executives travel to out-of-town hotels where they figure nobody will recognize...
...their peak. This sequence gives way to one filmed outside Memorial Hall, also speeded up many times. The dancers than come on stage, their movements exaggerated and fast. The music continues loud and rapid, and the audience is suddenly caught up in this frenzied, hell-bent, crash-course ritual we all know so well. Some call it Cambridge; Miss Crouse calls it earth...
...feel most dependent on U.S. military might. Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger will meet the President at Wahn airport and take him by helicopter to his modernistic bungalow in the Palais Schaumburg park to begin their private talks unter vier Augen (among four eyes). From Bonn, Nixon will make the ritual visit to West Berlin, where John Kennedy made his historic "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech from the city hall steps in the spring of 1963. It will be a difficult act to follow. U.S. and German planners have scheduled Nixon's principal speech before solidly pro-American workers...
...Italian party in Bologna observed the punctilios. The valiant North Vietnamese delegation was vigorously applauded, exiles from Greece were sympathetically received, and representatives from 34 other na tions were recognized. But then, for the 1,041 delegates and 4,000 observers in Bologna's overheated sports arena, the ritual ended. Secretary-General Luigi Longo, 68, signaled the change with some curious additions to and omissions from his four-hour keynote speech. He praised, of all people, Pope Paul VI, say ing that he entirely agreed with the Pope's view that too much of the West...