Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...million were homeless and 10,000 remained stranded in trees or on rooftops. In the fall of 1999 Hurricane Floyd dealt Florida and the Southeast a glancing blow that left people bailing; the rains of autumn 2000 left the same folks wondering if inundation was to be an annual ritual. In Miami in October, Hulda Stern, 93, who lived on her own with her cat Pinky, refused to leave the house in which she had lived since 1945. Some scientists warned that global warming would make the tropical storms of the future ever more intense, destructive and lethal...
...watch on TV the presidential debates they could be watching on TV at home. They do it mainly in order to be in another large room after the debate, where spinners for the candidates recite lines written before the debate about how their clients won the debate. The ritual is so well known and so completely accepted that CNN recently started a nightly program called The Spin Room. Twenty-first century pols and pundits don't mind appearing on a show based on the official premise that whatever they say will be calculated and insincere...
...three decades hence, Lopes has helped build up MAPS into a thriving ethnic community center. She has volunteered here twice a week for three decades, and the once-fledgling Portuguese center now serves as Lopes' second home. She volunteers, helping to serve meals and run the ritual after-lunch bingo games...
Cigar in hand, Jurgen Schrempp last spring was maintaining what had become a ritual on his regular visits to New York City--holding court at the St. Regis Hotel's King Cole Bar with a cluster of DaimlerChrysler's top executives. When an old business acquaintance wandered over to wish him well, Schrempp responded expansively with introductions to "my management board." The acquaintance shook all hands and then said with a chuckle, "But Jurgen, where are the Americans...
...daylight in upon magic, as Bagehot said of the monarchy. The post-election has scrambled the dynamic. A ritual transfer of power should go this way: We fight through a messy, noisy campaign, we line up in an orderly fashion to choose one candidate or the other, and then we reconcile ourselves to the choice and feel relief that we can forget about it. Now there is no relief. The mess that should have ended has followed us in to Thanksgiving dinner, and may be threatening Christmas...