Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual parade of the bands between the halves will be dispensed with and in its place a stirring commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the Armistice will be enacted. The ritual will open with the formation, on the Army side of the field facing the Harvard stands, of a line of dignitaries. These notables will be headed by Governor Ely of Massachusetts and will include many prominent figures of the State and Nation. While they are taking their places, a brilliant parade of color guards will enter the Stadium through the portal under the steel stands and take...
...House of Osman. 1925-Turkish men coerced to wear the hat instead of the fez, Turkish women encouraged to drop the veil. (To pious males hat-wearing caused spiritual agony, since the brim of the hat prevented them from touching their foreheads to the floor in prayer and Islamic ritual demands that one pray covered...
...altar at one extremity of this lake, which is an heroically shaped Owl-the Club's insignia ("Weaving spiders come not here"). Here the captured effigy of care is oared from across the lake in a medieval barge, and laid on a funeral pyre, where amidst much colorful ritual, he is cremated, to bother man no more-until next year. He is not buried...
...desired to go to Chicago by airplane but his five secretaries put their feet down. "Suppose you crashed?" said they. In Manhattan Patriarch Nakayama thrice visited the Empire State Building. He admired St. Patrick's Cathedral because he believes Tenrikyo has much in common with Roman Catholicism - its ritual is complicated and he as Patriarch wears elaborate robes. (But Tenrikyo includes rhythmic dances, camp-meetings.) One of Japan's best jiu-jitsu wrestlers, the Patriarch admires baseball. In Washington he saw the Yankees and Senators play but liked them less than young, fat, vigorous Japanese players...
...Keble's "National Apostasy" sermon electrified the Oxford Movement for which he, John Henry Newman and later Edward Bouverie Pusey worked. They yearned for order in ritual and discipline in the priesthood. They started a series of tracts, full of exaltation and theology, which ended with John Henry Newman trying to show that there was no real difference of form or theology between the Church of England and the Church of Rome. On the grounds that the Pope in Rome alone held the true Apostolic Succession from St. Peter, Newman withdrew from the Anglican Communion, later became a Cardinal...