Word: rituals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...game. "I know of no psychotic misconduct," Goffman has written, "that cannot be matched precisely in everyday life by the conduct of persons who are not psychologically ill nor considered to be so." Life in mental hospitals-"storage dumps" is one of his kindlier descriptions-also has its rituals. The patient who throws feces at an attendant, Goffman argues, is using a ceremonial idiom "that is as exquisite in its way as a bow from the waist. Whether he knows it or not, the patient speaks the same ritual language as his captors; he merely says what they...
Bucher asked for a silent prayer and slipped back from the microphone. The ritual of bearing the casket from the plane to a hearse continued. It has become a familiar airport ritual, one that most Americans have shared on television. As each of the caskets has flown in--from Dallas and Los Angeles, and now from Korea--there is the same sense of numb rage against violence. There were 82 living people to go along with this casket, but the feeling was the same...
...Extraordinary Spooks. And Frances Foster has a delicious bit as a highfalutin Whitey lover who is afraid that a lynching will ruin her daughter's debut, which is slated to be "written up in the paper near the society page." But many prefer him dead-the church for ritual, the whites for souvenirs, an African tribeswoman for dinner...
...dollar, it is still under enough suspicion that even an offhand, ill-advised remark by a high official can cause a speculative flurry. Last week David M. Kennedy, Nixon's Secretary of the Treasury, refused to make the ritual pledge that the U.S. will maintain the official price of gold at $35 per ounce. "I want to keep every option open," he said. Next day, the free market price of gold jumped in London to a six-month high of $41.82, and Nixon Press Aide Ron Ziegler tried to quiet the uncertainty by declaring: "We do not anticipate...
...seem to have emerged from the mainstream of Russian literature, Lebedev (Hugh Griffith), a rabid anti-Semite, makes Bok a trusted employee until Lebedev's daughter Zinaida (Elizabeth Hartman) falsely accuses the fixer of rape. The recriminatory shriek becomes a chorus when religious fanatics also accuse Bok of ritual murder. The fixer is seized and imprisoned. The . machinery of the state begins: moved by a heritage of hate, it tries to grind the fixer to dust...