Word: ritually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mile Club, thinks many meetings could just as well take place with telephone conference calls. Among those who share his complaint is Zoologist Charles J. Flora, 37, of Western Washington State College, who looks on traveling to conferences as at best an unavoidable bore and at worst a deadly ritual. "You get to the point, so enervated with endless waiting and the cramped discomfort of jet flight," says Flora, "that you quit making passes at the stewardesses...
...Hours. The ritual has been going on for 32 years, making squat, swarthy Um Kalthoum, now a matron of 64, the most famous personality in the Arab world, better known than Nasser, especially among desert folk. When she appeared for the first time at Lebanon's Baalbek Festival last month, her followers came by the busload from points as distant as the Persian Gulf. Her two concerts in the 4,000-seat tent theater amid the Roman ruins were sold out months in advance, and scalpers got up to $250 for tickets. While she conducted the 20-piece orchestra...
...island's hilly uplands to his barons, who in turn enlisted the rowdiest ruffians around into gangs of guards. No one really knows what "Mafia" means, but by the last century all Sicily knew what the Mafia was: a randy band, held together by blood oaths and eerie ritual, whose product was "Protection" and whose sell was never soft. Farmers paid to have their cattle not killed or their wells not poisoned. Lovers paid for the right to a few unharried moments in the moonlight. All the institutions of Sicilian society-church, aristocracy, political parties-either went along with...
...There is a feeling, no doubt reflected the resolution [for the amendment], at our public schools must not be goodness Freuad said. Public prayer, he considered, does not respond to this feeling. "A brief ritual of prayer in unison in the Sharon is at beat a seeable and believe a easy way to avoid the real and pressing problems of moral education in the schools...
...lying on my back on the grass. I could feel the shiny blades on my neck. Bright little points glittered all down the front of the liquid man kneeling beside me. I knew at once that he was a policeman, and I thought he was performing some ritual operation on me. There was a confusion in my mind between being brought to life-forceps, navel-cords, midwives -and being put to death-ropes, axes and black masks; but whatever it was that was happening, I felt that all men came to this at last...