Word: ritually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only a hardy aficionado still downs tequila the traditional way-with a preliminary pinch of salt and a slice of lime. For thirsty Americans, however, the Mexican ritual is too time-consuming and ritualistic: the drinker sucks the lime, licks the salt from the back of his thumb, and only then tosses back the tequila. Número uno for the American tequila fans is the Margarita, a cocktail made with lime juice, Cointreau or Triple Sec and tequila, all poured over shaved ice and served in a frosty glass rimmed with salt. To push tequila into the really...
Clear Statement. In the arduous efforts to end the war, that conversational cameo may not seem earthshaking. But amid the ritual of prepared exchanges, in a situation where the fund of optimism constantly verges on bankruptcy, Thuy's approach to Harriman offered the only glimmer of hope during last week's three-hour and 45-minute session. For by thus addressing his opposite number informally, Thuy may have been hinting that his delegation will soon be willing to talk directly to U.S. negotiators in an atmosphere undistorted by propaganda-as Harriman has been proposing all along-rather than...
...lives by ritual. Today's Commencement ceremonies, their form almost unchanged for generations, purport to transform a group of unfledged recruits into full scholars, and miraculously they succeed in some indefinable sense...
...ritual laughter is stifled and bleak...
Thus no real purge has occurred so far, and that other Communist ritual that comes with every change of regime -rehabilitation-has also been slow to start. Dubček released about 450 political prisoners soon after his takeover. But he has yet to review the trials, many of which were rigged, of some 40,000 former prisoners, or to restore to good grace by any official act about 100,000 people who lost their party membership, jobs, pensions and other privileges because of political acts or "unreliable opinions." Such redress as there has been has come from ordinary citizens...