Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their parliamentary majority sharply reduced in elections later this year. The depth of public feeling is indicated by a letter from a right-wing organization to Yoshio Kodama, Lockheed's secret agent in Japan. The letter demanded that Kodama atone for taking $7 million from Lockheed by "committing ritual hara-kiri...
Penn freshman Bob Speca set up a display of several hundred dominos in an intricate arrangement before the meet at poolside. In the pre-meet ritual for the Quakers, Speca, of the Johnny Carson show fame, knocked down the dominos that fell into a pattern reading, "Go Penn, Have...
Parts of Education of the Girlchild--such as one section of swirling white-veiled figures mesmerized by the masked idol "Ancestress"--feel like ritual, reflections of the "primordial reality" Monk mentioned Saturday. Yet the total work is not the translation of primitive dance into modern forms. Monk seems to have happened on primitivism in the course of realizing her own sensibility. In the same way she happens on surrealism, fantastic images grounded in reality, and on the style of Oriental theater, the integration of gesture, music and decor...
...trying to teach them that it is better to give than to receive," said one briefing officer. But the women will be exempt from boxing and wrestling; they will substitute judo and karate. The female plebes, however, will undergo the same painful, often humiliating seven-week initiation ritual that male cadets have dubbed "Beast Barracks." Its main features: incessant needling from upperclassmen, split-second obedience to their slightest commands and constant criticism of plebes' posture. Though women are still barred from combat, female cadets will have to learn how to heft the 10¼-Ib. M-14 rifle...
...John Wesley Harding album, particularly As I Went Out One Morning and The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest, songs about false searches. Isis begins with the narrator leaving Isis, the Egyptian goddess of perfect wife and motherhood for reasons left obscure. He goes through a ritual of cutting off his hair and washing his clothes and meets a man who promises him easy wealth. They travel to a country of "pyramids embedded in ice" and the narrator discovers that his companion is a grave-robber. His imagination is inflamed--he has visions of turquoise, gold, and diamonds...