Now influenced by Oriental mysticism, gestalt therapy techniques, and an Artaudian desire to abolish the distinction between art and life, The Living Theatre moved toward deliberately shocking and confronting its audiences in such works as Paradise Now (1968), in which the actors performed rituals, provoked arguments, and carried on until members of the audience left.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross never mentioned arranging date nights for the dead (with dancing) among the five stages of grief, but this is one of the more poetic rituals of "The Argument," a multimedia walk-through theatrical experience inspired by the disaster of Hurricane Katrina.
The usual explanations for their decline--that they no longer actually choose the candidates, or that television has overwhelmed them--fall a little short... What made political conventions seem significant through most of their recent history was not decisions but argument and ritual.
Of the men in the villages that Mr Chagnon studied 45% had killed another, sometimes in escalating ritual fights and sometimes in arguments over women.
Graham had separately theorized that Mencius developed both his response to Mozi and his account of the role of 仁 rénhumanity as arguments that Confucian ritual behavior had evolved from tiānnatural intuitive response patterns in the 心 xīnheart-mind.
Moreover, the argument is pernicious: the ritual of the street demonstration becomes a kind of blackmail, letting special-interest groups distort government behaviour.
Their argument goes something like this: ritual should be understood as a space in which the inevitable imperfections, difficulties and differences of life are left behind for an "as if" world where regulation and peace are momentarily possible.
Having been introduced to the questions, I was now curious: Could there really be a reasonable argument against Judaism's earliest ritual?
The brouhaha over "A Beautiful Mind" replays an argument that has become an award-season ritual.
He and Zeena boast about the non-dogmatic rituals and tenets of Satanism, but it's one argument that falls short.
