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...Japan's 20th century, militantly evangelistic Soka Gakkai, which bears little resemblance to classical Buddhism of any kind. Nichiren Shoshu claims more than 100,000 members in the U.S.-mostly neat, middle-class individuals who commit themselves to hour after hour of chanting the sect's brief ritual prayer, often for the material prosperity and success that they believe such chanting brings...
Some elected (in a controlled fashion) and some appointed (in an even more controlled fashion), the delegates were essentially of one mind before they convened. But they went through almost two weeks of carefully orchestrated ritual and ceremony before finally reaching their unanimous choice: the incumbent President, General Suharto...
Somewhere between Gebel-Williams' caged and sensuous art and the author's own ritual purifications in the woods lies the real wild-that state of constant tension between freedom and control. It is the bewilderness, an inexhaustible human resource that Hoagland exploits while scarcely leaving a track on the forest floor. · R.Z. Sheppard
...becomes a matter of table-manners and unnecessary ritual. "You just don't talk about those things at the table" -- I know because they've never talked about those things at any table I've been at. "They don't need to meet that formally anyway" -- I know because I can talk to my friends at dinner or any time. "Sure, women are outratioed and over-pressured, but this thing can get blown up out of all proportion. Maybe a women's table is O.K., but taking over a whole dining hall is a little bit too much...
...ritual, deliberate sinning, of the afternoon cigarette and beer begins. Her ritual of reorienting herself to this place of odd noises and smells. She snaps the radio on. The jive soul station. The jive rap of a jive brother, and the ditty-bop love songs. It all soothes over her current terror with pastel washes of nostalgia. Except sometimes the bouncing bass of the dj, startling her with its abrasive masculinity. Making her remember. Discord...