Word: rituals
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...subcommittee also proposed a course on African art and ritual, Clausen said...
...BEGINS HOPEFULLY, the bare, carefully-crafted prose interspersed with a Yiddish irony that lightens its mood. Dubin's wife Kitty has a compulsion to smell the gas burners on the stove to make sure they are not leaking. Once she leaves the house without performing the ritual: "Kitty hastily reentered the house, hurried into the kitchen, fighting herself. Herself...
...piece was Henry Brant's Orbits, subtitled "a spatial ritual." After Conductor Gerhard Samuel's final beat of the baton, the composer rose from his seat at the organ to acknowledge a standing ovation...
While the calumnies heaped on the American government by Mexican leadership have become almost an annual ritual, the United States has only recently begun to take the Mexican charges seriously. American harshness toward Mexico in public actually masks division within the Carter ad-powerful Mexico, whose threats now have a more ominous ring than they did five short years...
...ironically, it is the onlooker who reaps the most benefits. For it is that unchanging and steadfast aspect of the ritual itself, the fact that spring training does and always will occur in the same way, a laid-back, almost pensive introduction to the epic of regular season that follows, that annually hoists the pastime onto its pedestal. As columnist Art Spander once philosophized, "It remains that time when athlete and spectator both dream, when the dreariness and discomfort of winter at last are slipping away, when baseball once more is the game we knew as kids...