Word: ritualizes
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...Ritual pairings of the sexes seem less obligatory. Many hostesses no longer worry about having equal numbers of men and women at a dinner party. It is regarded as awkward, if not rude, to pair men and women at such occasions or to insist on "boy-girl" seating at the table. The 19th century after-dinner protocol of sexual segregation-at least where initiated by men-has long been fading. Such formality persists in some Washington circles. But last August, when she was asked to "join the ladies" after dinner at a party given by Averell Harriman, Washington Post Reporter...
...seven members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries at the conference-Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Algeria, Indonesia, Venezuela and Nigeria-made ritual and occasionally heated objections to Kissinger's arguments. "Blaming the world's difficulties on [the oil producers'] actions and decisions not only is unconvincing," said...
...just decorously assumed power during an official anointing ceremony at the Church of San Jerónimo in Madrid. The façade of an orderly transfer of power from Francisco Franco to his designated heir was persuasively preserved, but a hundred questions were left hanging over the elaborate ritual of pomp and prayer...
...them for no immediately apparent reason, passion is a misplaced religious feeling for horses as all-seeing gods that developed out of his father's refusal to let him ride a horse when a child and his mother's proselityzing fervor (or so the play simplistically postulates). And the ritual that surrounds this passion plumbs to the depths of the unconscious mind: of sexuality, aggressiveness, bestiality, and the need to explain this world through some from of myth...
...fact regard coach Joe Restic as a greater fund raiser than President Pusey. But these are idle and self-indulgent speculations, the concern of those whose spirits rise and fall with the size of Harvard's coffers. There are those for whom the game is a sacred ritual, and others for whom the game is a meaningless display of wealth and violence. What one likes and dislikes about the Harvard-Yale game on the occasion of its 100th anniversary is probably a close approximation of how one feels about this university...