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...chiefs of Swaziland paid a total of 105 cattle to the family of Mswati's mother Ntombi as a dowry for the woman who was to become the mother of the nation. Before the public ceremony, Mswati underwent secret initiation rites and took part in a series of exhausting ritual dances in full feathered regalia. At the coronation, tribal praise singers endlessly repeated his imposing chain of official titles, which include the Bull, Guardian of the Sacred Shields, the Inexplicable and the Great Mountain...
...time the evening had ended, though, many were left wondering whether the production was anti-Nazi or anti-Semitic. Schoenberg's libretto makes an explicit extended centerpiece out of the episode of the Golden Calf: gold is collected and formed into an idol; a ritual slaughter of animals is followed by a sacrifice of Four Naked Virgins; there is an orgy of drunkenness, sexual license and suicide. By forsaking emotionally neutral biblical robes for specific ghetto mufti (only Moses, portrayed by Bass-Baritone Theo Adam, is outfitted in Old Testament garb), Ponnelle risked having the quarrelsome Jews appear like characters...
...inaugural ceremony, five-year president David T. McLaughlin handed over the ritual symbols of the Dartmouth presidency to James O. Freedman '57, in accordance with school tradition, said Lisa M. Baker, news editor of The Dartmouth...
Issues passionate and human and difficult surge up against the Constitution. Every day it attends to the pleas of lust, rage, unborn life, the killer's remorse, the President's prerogatives, the First Amendment rights of a Ku Klux Klansman. The Constitution even makes a ritual appearance in the American television cop show: there comes a moment of denouement when the detective, triumphant but sardonically obedient to the Miranda decision, snaps the cuffs on a suspect and growls, "You have the right to remain silent. You have the right...
...this time by processions of scholars, by seminars on Public Television, by a different public mood. The Constitution is more complex than a Fourth of July, more technical, more cerebral and, in its intricacies, subtleties and silences, even enigmatic. A Fourth of July is fireworks and rhetoric, the old ritual romance of liberty. The Constitution is thought and legalism...