Word: ritualizes
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...their politics. Still, those who took time off from their vacations last week to glance at a newspaper were not quite prepared for the official photograph of their new government. Man for man and portfolio for portfolio, it consisted of the same 28 ministers who had posed for the ritual picture in June 1981. True, Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini appeared to have put on a few pounds, and Treasury Minister Benjamino Andreatta had shifted from the far left to the far right. Otherwise, as Italians quickly noted, it was a "photocopy government...
...novelist." Sennett disputes the contradiction. He not only sees Frog as a counterpart to his previous book of social criticism, Authority (1980), but sees both as the beginning of an eight-part series (four of them novels) on the main emotional relations underlying modern society: authority, solitude, fraternity and ritual...
...Mexico City, their soldiers waged war with the efficiency of Roman legions. Decked in feathery plumage to simulate serpents and other fearsome creatures, they terrorized their neighbors, bringing back captives and exacting tribute of food, blankets, precious metals and cacao beans (for use as money). In a bloody annual ritual known as the Raising of Banners, they appeased their chief deity Huitzilopochtli, the war god, by killing their prisoners as well as slaves especially purchased for sacrifice by Aztec merchants. In one recorded debauch, some 20,000 victims were allegedly delivered to the god. Without such human offerings, the Aztecs...
...farmers, service workers, ministers, musicians, many excitedly meeting for the first time. Some stopped off to visit family sites like the grave of Haley's great-great-grandfather, Chicken George. "It was, of course, very emotional," said Haley. By the time everything wound up in that all-American ritual, the family picnic, the Haley clan was already talking about its next giant reunion...
...Japan, when a theater is inaugurated, the stage is blessed in a religious ritual. In England, the players bless the stage by taking it. -By T.E. Kalem