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...According to one version, it was the custom for sons of the British nobility to sign Oxford college registers fit. nob. - short for filius nobilis, son of a nobleman - and they were hence known as "nobs." Those who had no such claim but liked to associate with the aristocracy became known as quasi nobs, hence "snobs...
This is a day of custom-made faiths. Men of religious spirit who, for reasons of rationality or temperament, cannot accept orthodox religions tailor these orthodoxies to suit their personal needs and imaginations. One of the more popular forms of spiritual eclecticism, and the one chosen by the late British man of letters John Middleton Murry, is to deny the divinity of Christ and reject most Christian dogma, but to cling to Jesus Christ, the man, as a kind of supreme culture hero embodying every man's unending quest for his better self. At best noble in a pagan...
...stapleages have kooky titles: Once is not Custom, Miss Brown to You, Panic in the Harem. Within a few days after the current exhibition opened at the Galerie Arnaud, more than half of Downing's compositions were sold...
...tithe-literally, "tenth"-is simply a tax of a tenth of one's income. The ancient Israelites paid it, and Christians carried on the custom; the Synod of Macon in 585 made it compulsory under threat of excommunication. After the Reformation, the Protestants continued tithing until the custom fell into disuse during the last century, except with the Mormons, the Seventh-day Adventists, and several other groups, which have flourished on it. Since World War II, however, tithing has staged something of a comeback among Protestants, though not among Catholics...
...story was suggested by the custom, common among British labor unions, of bringing a rebellious member back in line by "sending him to Coventry."* In this case, the rebel is a machinist (Richard Attenborough), an ordinary bloke who sticks to the telly and minds his football pools, until one day the Works Committee calls a wildcat strike that he considers senseless. Along with about a dozen other men, he refuses to take part in it. Factory toughs terrorize the holdouts, and all but the hero come to heel. "Don't do to step out of line these days," somebody...