Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effective than rage. Reagan's substitute for strong emotion seems to be humor, both memorized and spontaneous. He is a walking repertory theater of show-biz anecdotes, one-liners, elaborate routines (interestingly, he almost never tells a political anecdote). On the campaign plane, Nancy Reagan has made a ritual of rising a few moments after takeoff to roll an orange toward the emergency exit at the rear, which she usually manages to hit. When she is not along, Reagan takes over the routine and converts it into an act. Sometimes he is a bowler, sometimes a football player, frequently...
...though I was wearing a bathing suit," he said afterward. He was, in fact, clad in wool underwear, a frogman's suit, a ski suit, a leather suit, several wool sweaters and a motorcycle helmet. The frigid feat ended in a small New Jersey airfield, after a ritual circling of the Statue of Liberty and a near collision with the Goodyear blimp...
Wolves are killers. Precisely because of that, says Fox, they seem to be at pains to avoid killing one another. Within the pack this takes the form of ritual challenge and acts of subservience, plus carefully pursued systems of personal rights. In external affairs, packs keep to their own turf. When they hunt near the border of another pack's range, they howl out early warning systems so there will be no inadvertent confrontation. And they leave buffer zones between territories, not merely to keep the peace, but to provide safety areas where deer are allowed to breed...
Part of the tortuous ritual known as freshman year at the United States Military Academy includes knowing the "days," the exact number of days until various important events, like the Army-Harvard and Army-Navy football games and Christmas. The last day before the event--no one seems to have any idea why--is always called a "butt...
...distillation of his observations of society. The "Ashes" project is meant to be "a real indictment of the European tradition--of the structure, the method, the burial of thought." The inhabitants of the 13 towers represent individuals caught in pre-ordained social and political roles, locked in historic ritual. The inhabitant of the modern house personifies the 20th-century argument for an escape from history--yet the system subsumes him along with the others. Finally, the citizen who refused to participate must live in a two-dimensional house. Cut off from human contact, he must at the same time live...