Here are some of the habits, traditions, merits and defects that characterize Italians -- from coffee rituals to tragedies and the lessons we've learned from our past.
It is a little-noticed part of the repetitious ritual of gun tragedy — the reckoning in fuller measure of the damage shooters inflict in the absence of sensible gun controls.
On Dranesville Road, between the mosque and the McDonald's, rituals of American tragedy were being enacted.
The word could have referred either to the prize, a goat, that was awarded to the dramatists whose plays won the earliest competitions or to the dress (goat skins) of the performers, or to the goat that was sacrificed in the rituals from which tragedy developed.
Facebook, for instance, already has its ritual for responding to tragedy.
An amiable piece, it doesn't aim for the power of Morris's big tribal dances - Grand Duo, All Fours, V - which have the feel of rituals warding off impending tragedy.
The high-profile ceremony, attended by members of the Royal Family, was reportedly the idea of the survivors of the disaster, a ritual to mark the scale of the tragedy.
The "Symphony of Psalms," in Sellars's conception, becomes a redemptive epilogue to Sophocles' tragedy, the musical ritual accompanying Oedipus' quasi-mystical death at Colonus.
Ms. Hopkins makes her entrance as a geisha-faced clown in "The Truth: A Tragedy," the angry ritual of grief that she is performing at the SoHo Rep, clad in cumbersome layers that disguise her body and distort her movements.
A forum the other night in Danbury reflected this civic ritual as survivors of other tragedies — Columbine, 9/11 and the assault on the Sikh temple in Wisconsin last August — offered advice on what to expect next as the spotlight dims.
