Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Here the Harvard band redeemed itself. Mired in propriety throughout the day, give or take an occasional shouted grotesquerie ("Break their arms off, break their legs off, we love football!"), they finally came to life. Champagne was produced for the hanky-waving ritual, and the flow of Mumm inspired Will Moore, the 6-ft. 6-in. drum major, to pour a quart or two into his size-13 sneaker and drink from it. Other bandies joined...
Before leaving, the students performed a purification ritual to cleanse the lab of "the evil spirit left by the hand of brutal leftist thugs...
...little defensive about how big it is here. We wonder how we fit into the broader world. Willa Cather spoke of the 'clammy shiver of embarrassment' she felt in the presence of Easterners merely at the mention of the name Nebraska. We all partake in this tribal ritual of football, this coming together in the community, this need for a common identity. But we are a bit self-conscious about it, and saved, I suspect, by a sense of humor. I think one of the reasons Nebraskans feel as secure as we do is Tom Osborne...
...Chicago, 1,200 nuns and lay women from 37 states gathered to protest teachings that limit the role of women in the church. They announced the founding of a new women's Catholic movement, and celebrated a ritual meal with round loaves of bread and carafes of wine. Some wore buttons announcing I'M POPED...
...upon a time, before Galileo changed everything, the people who are now seduced by salvage would have worn long, pointy sorcerers' hats and worried about perpetual-motion machines and the best way to turn lead into gold. Nowadays they call themselves scroungers and arrive for the weekly salvage ritual in white pickup trucks, wearing clothes suitable for labor in a wood lot. Many of them also wear Los Alamos National Laboratory security badges on their down vests and flannel shirts. Their reflexive tendency on being introduced, to reveal whether or not they have a Ph.D., hints that this...