Word: ritualizes
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...majesty of the royal wedding was abundant in its ritual splendors, but its soul was all in the small things...
...ritual and regalia of the wedding were matched in ingenuity if not in splendor by the celebrations surrounding them. Angus Henry, 25, a freelance caterer, and Gwyn Jenkins, 25, an interior designer, set up hard by Buckingham Palace with a television, three cases of sparkling white wine, masses of duck pate, a crate of salmon sandwiches, French bread, orange juice and a large black umbrella. They threw a party right there for 50 friends, and on the wedding morning Angus changed into a morning suit. All along the wedding route, spectators wrapped themselves in flags and youths painted the Union...
...must not let in daylight upon magic." This wedding on the cusp of high noon, in front of a world short on ritual and parched for romance, is in fact one grand pass of the royal wand, a masterly and pricey piece of prestidigitation in which, at once, the old values are upheld, the future is assured and everyone can be queen...
...preeminent theologian, but a public figure. In 1934 he drafted the creed of the anti-Nazi "Confessing Church," which organized German Protestantism against Hitler's puppet church. That same year he was fired from his professorship at the University of Bonn for refusing to take the ritual faculty pledge of allegiance to Hitler. Returning to his native Switzerland, the archfoe of Nazism often perplexed Westerners-including America's Reinhold Niebuhr-with his live-and-let-live attitude toward Communism...
...OTHER PART of Shaw's colonial equation concerns the collective, ritualized behavior of the American crowds. Shaw defines a ritual as a formal enactment of a prescribed ceremony or routine usually with religious overtones. In the most provocative section of American Patriots. Shaw analyzes how the rituals of colonial society--paramount among them local celebrations of religious and secular holidays--might easily have been converted to revolutionary purposes. Such celebrations, particularly the annual Saturnalia, featuring mock overthrows of legitimate and illegitimate rulers, expressed, says Shaw, a profound ambivalence toward authority. While stating that the highly moral and serious-minded leaders...