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...kingdom of television, there are a thousand different styles, rituals, protocols. Every Sunday, for example, ABC-TV's David Brinkley welcomes a guest with not one, not two but three ceremonial expressions of welcome, a bouquet of courtesy that is positively Japanese: "Mr. Secretary, thank you for being here . . . Delighted you could come . . . a pleasure to have you . . ." One expects it, waits for it. ABC-TV's White House correspondent Sam Donaldson forever shouts at the President above the noise of the waiting helicopter, and the President forever turns and cups his hand quizzically. The ceremony almost never yields...
...part, the drama of the Bush-Rather match (otherwise the merest blip in the history of a presidential campaign) derived from Rather's departure from the ritual expectations: the network news star addressing the Vice President of the U.S. is expected to be earnest and anchormanly but not nerved up for a duel, an affair of honor. People do not expect the anchorman to behave like a samurai...
...Harvard, the Beanpot is a ritual cleansing. A chance to show that even winners can lose all the time...
...most moving sections of the book, Gitlin compares the disillusionment, hopelessness and general atomization of many former activists in the Seventies with the Ghost Dance of the defeated Sioux in the 1890s, who believed that if they practiced a particular ritual purification and circle dance, the spirits would intervene and drive away the otherwise all-powerful white conquerors. Hence, Gitlin argues, the encounter culture of the Seventies, when many old radicals drifted unhappily from guru and method to method, seeking the lost solidarity and exhilarating sense of purpose of their Movement days...
...construct a latticework of skywalks to shield shoppers from the wind chill. Here is a state that, though the highest elevation is 1,670 ft., has found a way to lure city slickers away from the ski slopes of New Hampshire. The secret, of course, is the tribal ritual known as the Iowa caucuses, that moment in presidential politics when the snowblower finally hits the driveway...