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...Administration. (Vice President Gerald Ford has made it clear that, should he become President, he would ask Kissinger to stay on.) Whatever private doubts Kissinger may have about Nixon's role in Watergate, he keeps them well hidden in public. Despite his immense prestige, the Secretary carefully preserves the ritual required of a subordinate who takes orders from a Commander in Chief. When in Washington, he consults daily with the President; on the road, he cables back reports and requests for foreign policy guidance when necessary...
...both the tower ritual and the Parsi community itself seem to be on the decline. As high-rise apartments go up around Malabar Hill, it has become easier to catch a glimpse of what was once forbidden to all but the tower attendants-a view of the interior of the towers, where the dead are left as carrion. Visiting one of the new buildings, a horrified Parsi was able to see shrunken corpses stacked in grotesque piles inside one tower. After he complained, a wall was quickly built to screen the tower. But Parsis now realize the shortcomings...
...power-mustering capacity of blacks in the socioeconomic sphere. The existential dimension provides a defense against the culture's adversaries and propagates self-security within the culture. The functional and existential components of black culture are based on the historical experience of blacks, but the latter emphasizes the black ritual tradition. The ritual tradition of blacks is the inherited pattern of symbolic response to various societal phenomena...
...needs religion and ritual, and the recent cult of parapsychology has produced an impressive clergy...
...spent part of my childhood expecting to be a master, but I turned out a patzer all the same. At first, I thought chess was some strange ritual, played only by my father and the close relatives who visited us on special occasions. But once my father saw fit to teach me the moves, I began to progress rapidly. My book learning was limited to a book by Fred Reinfield, which outlined the moves, and a few of Reinfields's favorite mates...