Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...taxicab, even a telephone booth. Out of his pocket comes a piece of candle. He wants to sterilize his injection. He puts water in a spoon, heats it over the candle, dissolves his morphin, filters the solution through cotton, fills his needle, injects. It is to him a holy ritual. He is happiest when he has an acolyte; someone who wants to try dope-to watch the slow fire of rot filter through the novice's veins. He keeps the papers his powders come in. When he has no more dope he can lick the grains of dust clinging...
With the visual factors of the production--always in a ritual of extreme importance--it is hard to find any others that come up to the level of the thirteenth century set. The lighting obviously, hampered by the practical difficulties the museum offered was aucortain, inaccurate, and showed little plan behind its questionable striving or "effects". Of the costumes only those on which little trouble had been taken--spice, in fact the best, borrowed from the recent production of the "Orange Comedy are very successful. The costumes of the more important characters ranged from the operatic ridiculousness of the High...
...building of the Germany of just before the war, the Dramatic Club has presented a twelfth century miracle play in a manner which suggests more the period of the building than the period of any of the other elements involved. A miracle play, like all that is ritual or desended or ritual, is a variation on a theme; and in the recurrent miracle plays the text has formed but a very small element of the orchestration. In this play the text is less interesting than in some that have preceded. Or it may be obscured by a frequently infelicitous translation...
...present Miracle Play has not been one of the finest productions, but it has at least carried on a fine tradition; a tradition which, while very new, is in the long life of the University little newer than that other ritual of calling "Reinhart...
...Marconis obtained a divorce in Fiume, under the accommodating D'Annunzio régime. Onetime Signora Marconi has since remarried. It was supposed that Catholic annulment was sought either that she might have her marriage sanctioned by her Church, or that Signor Marconi too might remarry with Catholic ritual. Gossips thought they knew his new lady-one Elizabeth Paynter, 19, of Cornwall, Eng.-and insisted that it was in behalf of his annulment that Signor Marconi last week sought and obtained an audience with the Pope...