Word: ritualizes
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Outside the Ryoanji temple, the newest Japanese surfaces shine. The taxi drivers bustle, sweeping huge feather dusters over their cars, flicking specks from the bright metal. The ritual, a writer once remarked, makes them look like chambermaids in the first act of a French farce. But it is utterly Japanese, a set piece: the drivers handle their dusters like samurai. The scene is a sort of cartoon of the busy, fastidious superego that is supposed to preside in the Japanese psyche. The drivers even wear white gloves. There is probably not a dirty taxicab in Japan...
August 3 The Ritual...
...last obstacle to complete accord was the island republic of Malta, which insisted that all 35 conference members accept the idea of a future meeting on Mediterranean security. Even when that hurdle is cleared, the Madrid agreements must be endorsed by the foreign ministers of all the participants. That ritual, which may not take place until September, may provide the opportunity for a meeting between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko...
Unless your mother framed them, you've probably lost your acceptance letter to Harvard-Radcliffe and the handsome crimson and black emblazoned certificate that came in the mail with it. But lost or not, it is those perfunctory documents that signify that you made it through the annual ritual directed by the admissions office...
...busy sidewalk, in an alien capital knows how hard it is to catch the rhythm. Yet a series of three couples in pale unitards does invade the mob, finally clearing a space for their own brief dance and slightly skewing the renewed movement of the throng. Clearly this urban ritual could go on forever, but abruptly the bright lights are quenched...