Word: ritualizes
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...about his public conduct to be the least bit theatrical. Glenn is a wooden speaker. But he has polished up his basic themes in the past six months and has somewhat improved his platform skills. Last month in Bangor, Me., the political loner seemed more comfortable with the stump ritual of holding out his arms and asking a group of local Democrats to please give him a hand...
...distasteful had the University been feeding them for the past week. But meals end with classes, and seniors must stick around for almost two weeks so they can be paraded in front of their applauding ancestors. One junior, who as the offspring of a '58er has been experiencing the ritual from the inside, reports that at the usually stony Freshman. Union the serves are suddenly calling him by his first name (reading it off the colour-coded tag on his lapel) and asking him how large a portion he wants...
Within a few weeks after arriving at Harvard in the fall of 1954, I established a late afternoon ritual for myself which I followed as faithfully as I could for the remainder for that year. My three roommates and I shared a "quad" at the top of Holworthy Hall. It had a spacious living room, well-lighted by two large windows that overlooked the Yard. I had arranged my desk and bookcase by the corner beside one of those windows. There, late every afternoon, with my roommates scattered to Lamont or some other sanctuary, I sat with my notebook...
There are other, nonconstitutional concerns as well. Though most youngsters seem to enjoy the fingerprinting ritual, Pediatrician Benjamin Spock warned two weeks ago that "children worry about things they don't understand." And they may worry if they do understand the fear that prompts their parents. Is taking a child's fingerprints effective? Mary Jones of Florida's Missing Children Information Clearinghouse, who supports the new programs, acknowledges, "Fingerprinting helps only if we find a child who is either small and can't say his name or an amnesia victim or dead...
...most skillful, Nichols tellingly evokes the Joycean interior monologue in which the tingling shock effect is that of making the holy ritual of the confessional an open secret. In one scene, James is at a one-woman show of Kate's photographs, and his alter ego speaks: "Shall I say it then, in front of all these people? She took my hand and placed it high on her thigh, raising her skirt and slightly opening her legs . . . And all the time we kept talking in loud voices about Cartier-Bresson and was photography an art." Using the same device...