Word: ritually
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Within a few weeks after arriving at Harvard in the fall of 1954, I established a late afternoon ritual for myself which I followed as faithfully as I could for the remainder for that year. My three roommates and I shared a "quad" at the top of Holworthy Hall. It had a spacious living room, well-lighted by two large windows that overlooked the Yard. I had arranged my desk and bookcase by the corner beside one of those windows. There, late every afternoon, with my roommates scattered to Lamont or some other sanctuary, I sat with my notebook...
...most skillful, Nichols tellingly evokes the Joycean interior monologue in which the tingling shock effect is that of making the holy ritual of the confessional an open secret. In one scene, James is at a one-woman show of Kate's photographs, and his alter ego speaks: "Shall I say it then, in front of all these people? She took my hand and placed it high on her thigh, raising her skirt and slightly opening her legs . . . And all the time we kept talking in loud voices about Cartier-Bresson and was photography an art." Using the same device...
...John Ritter of Three's Company as host, was the No. 1-rated show in the last week of April. Notwithstanding its title, the show was not about Life's most embarrassing moments but television's. It took its place in a long television tradition of ritual humiliation: programs that deliberately embarrass their victims to the mingled amusement and relief of the audience. Shows like Candid Camera tried to catch unwitting people in mortifying circumstances, while The Newlywed Game prodded one spouse to air the other's dirty laundry. Most of the clips on Life...
...this world's a ready-to-wear runway. From early March, in Milan, through late March in Paris and ending just last week in New York City, the fashion corps turns up for the yearly ritual of checking out what's new for fall. The action they see, and, indeed, of which they become part, has the trappings of drama, the slow-motion choreography of a dream, the bleary musicality of an after-hours club at dawn. It also has the conviviality of a carnival, the commercialism of an appliance convention, the congenial corruption of a sideshow...
That Maria is ashamed of her heritage in part disappoints because the truth in the cliche is not supplemented by the quirky and stimulating observations Davies offers elsewhere. The need of the intellectual to "farce out" the essential, the orthodox and the ritual in life, as cooks work at the "extending and amplifying of a dish with other, complementary elements" is a central theme of the novel. It forms the basis for a plea for the introduction of intellectual vitality into religious life, and in a broader sense, becomes a justification for the Humanities--a concern which many modern universities...