Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From earliest times the eclipse has been an occasion of awe and wonder. Savages used to abase themselves before the frown of God, and a religious ritual is still celebrated by Mohammedans on these days. Civilized man smiles at primitive superstition, and yet he is not different from his ancestor, for he still feels within himself the same quiver of respect. But with it is mingled a vast pride in man-made science which charts out and predicts even the minutest movements of the planets. The scientist, on this day, receives the full meed of popular awe before his divination...
...life-work is still a mystery to him to learn that success is a simple matter of training. If one would be a Shakespeare, a Bismarck, or a Newton, let him forget the "bete noire" of special gifts, of adverse talents and misapplied genius, and go through the necessary ritual of preparation. That is all there is to it--at least, according to Professor John B. Watson, formerly professor of psychology at Johns Hopkins University...
When the high priests of Israel made sacrifices to the God of Abraham, they followed a ritual in their slaughter of the beast which was both humane and sanitary. Using a long, smooth blade, twice the width of the animal's throat, they severed with a delicate stroke, scrupulously exact, the fourth ventricle of the trembling sheep, permitting the body to lie undisturbed until the blood had thoroughly drained from its lax veins. The ritual has never changed. Meat that is not fit for a sacrifice is, to the orthodox, not fit to eat. If there is any blemish...
...circumstances, but this incident will only intensify the opposition. The popular mind will be more impressed by a concrete example of voluntary martyrdom than by countless exhortations as to the sanctity of National honor. It was no vulgar suicide that the patriot committed but the appeal through a recognized ritual to the sentiment of his countrymen. The appeal has not been forgotten, as the removal of his body to a more sacred resting place testifies. No one can deny that the memory of his deed will be a stimulus to haired of the United States nor that nationalists and militarists...
...dances, it is said, were never supported by the older parishioners. When, last Easter, A. Van Home Stuyvesant went to inspect the grave of his ancestor, Peter Stuyvesant (TIME, June 23), he and his family departed without leaving their individual checks for $900 at the Church. The eurythmic ritual also brought upon Dr. Guthrie the Episcopal admonition of Bishop William T. Manning. "In disregard of my counsel . . . you used eurythmic or other dancing in said church. . . . Therefore I hereby notify you that I decline to visit the congregation and parish of St. Mark's (TIME, Apr. 7). Bishop Manning...