Word: ritually
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...with power needs, most people push themselves through emotional hoops to maintain their claim to innocence. Oliver, another patient with rotten parents, had to get out of bed and dress according to a precise procedure. He believed that if he missed a step, God would punish his family. This ritual gave him a feeling of power, while allowing him to blame God for any mishap that might befall his parents...
...Abraham Lincoln once admitted, "by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go." Jonathan Livingston Seagull clearly speaks to some kind of need in America for words of inspiration that do not instantly turn to ashes on the tongue. The Catholic Mass has been largely shriven of ritual mystery. Protestant sermons are soggy with sociology. Occultism, though thriving (TIME, June 19), comes on too much like fraternity rites staged by the devil's disciple. The old maxims ("This above all: To thine own self be true"; "I thank whatever gods may be/For my unconquerable soul," etc.) embarrass. Still...
...real breakthrough came on Oct. 8, as Kissinger arrived at a spacious villa used by the North Vietnamese near the town of Rambouillet, 28 miles southwest of Paris, for this 19th meeting with Le Due Tho. The North Vietnamese began the quiet Sunday-morning session with a ritual demand for a political settlement, and then asked for a two-hour break. Kissinger spent the time walking through the surrounding oak and beech forests, pondering what would come next. The setting had the kind of historical cachet that delights Kissinger. It was at Rambouillet, with its 14th century chateau, once...
...support had a narrow base. His Cultural Revolution directorate included only his private secretary, his wife, his former bodyguard and few others of note. What really counted, as always, was his godlike status. He took pains to enhance it with Little Red Books, parades and ritual. This worked so well that when Mao was forced to take the desperate step of calling out the troops, he could still pretend that the country was well on the way to a Communist Utopia...
...they move with the grace and ceremonial formality of traditional Japanese etiquette. No one says hello or bids good-bye, pays a compliment or enters a room, without bowing politely to show respect, or even deep affection. These motions raise the most ordinary pastimes to a kind of cherished ritual. The langorous physical actions and static facial expressions actually serve to heighten one's awareness of constant tension. For even at the most peaceful moments, fans tremble incessantly in the hands of the actors, attempting to dispell what must be the sweltering heat of summer, and to relieve the friction...