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...kids too hopped up on amphetamines to s]eep-at the abandoned airport of Skarpnack, just south of the city. Chief Rolling Thunder, an honorary Shoshoni medicine man, chanted invocations while 50 members of the Hog Farm, a peregrinating U.S. commune, threw tobacco into a camp fire, a ritual that is supposed to ward off violence...
...Psychiatric Association, Bergman explained that the ceremonials are based on a belief that disease is "caused by disharmony with the universe, including the universe of other men." To restore harmony, a medicine man or "singer" conducts a traditional "chantway," leading the ailing victim, his relatives and friends in a ritual of speeches and dancing...
...Ritual Words. As important, in a way, as the agreements was the atmosphere of the summit. The Russians were determined to be good-humored and to keep their guests in good spirits as well. Nixon's picture appeared every day on page 1 of Pravda, and unlike the usual Soviet caricature of the President, he looked pleasant...
During the first few months of each year, Detroit's auto manufacturers stage a strange and well-guarded ritual at their test sites. Using cars equipped with the following model-year's engine, test drivers go through an endless automotive pentathlon of starts and stops, cruising and idling, turning and backing up. Even so, company engineers must wait four months to get the results they want: a series of cars that have clocked 50,000 miles each of simulated commuter driving on Los Angeles freeways with almost no repair work. Only after the exhaust emissions from vehicles thus...
Magog is a contemporary wizard -a civil servant whose vast power derives from the ritual manipulation of a bureaucracy that is every bit as arcane as any occult Druidic circle. With engaging arrogance he can honestly boast that "England waits at my out tray." As a highly informed fabulist, Sinclair romps through the same corridors of power that C.P. Snow shuffles through as an unimaginative realist. Myth, politics and culture are nimbly glossed as the author tells of Magog's rise to wealth and prestige. In 1948 Magog, as a specialist in foreign affairs, pays for his sack time...