Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only the beginning of the storm of suggestion. The maze of the tutorial system and the mysteries of the magic invoked by the two words, concentration and distribution, still remain for the initiate before the advisory fetish has fulfilled its function. Today, in the New Lecture Hall, the old ritual will take place, and the Freshman will be initiated into at least the mechanics of the present system...
...international brotherhood conducted, like Freemasonry, on the lodge system. It extols good citizenship, patriotism, scientific and cultural self-improvement. Its primary significance is not religious. It claims descent from an occult and ancient line supposedly including the Egyptian sages and Sir Fran cis Bacon. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson.* Its ritual is elaborate, archaic, Egyptian in symbolism. Imperator Lewis recently threatened suit against Mrs. Heindel of Oceanside because she employed the term Rosicrucian in connection with her fellowship...
Scandal), made five-hour speeches in Parliament, bet foolishly on innumerable horses, was buried with high ritual in Westminster Abbey. He was a breath-taking swell; far sweller than the lacy-sleeved heroes of his dramas. Even Captain Jack Absolute of The Rivals pales by comparison with his dashing creator. Captain Jack, as everyone well-versed in English drama knows, conducts his courtship of Miss Lydia Languish under an assumed name, because she is so rich herself that she fancies a penurious lover. Lydia is in care of the imposing, loquacious Mrs. Malaprop, who moves with the majesty...
...difficulties in presenting Chinese drama to an Occidental public are considerable. For Chinese drama is not Classic or Romantic, realistic or idealistic, sentimental or satiric?it does not fit in any of the categories which Occidental critics have devised to describe Occidental literature. Chinese drama is a formalized, ancient ritual, a subtle play of gesture, expression and intonation in which each turn of the eyeball, each crook of the finger, has definite significance. A Chinese actor succeeds to the extent that he masters this vast, intricate bodily symbolism, the medium of an art far older than Shakespeare...
...John McNaugher, president of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, also found favor with the delegates when he declared: "There will be objections. Differences in administration and ritual will be magnified. There will be suspicions as to one another's orthodoxy. But be it so, whatever is alleged against organic union must be sifted. There seems to be no determinative reason why we should not get together on a strong and durable basis, concentrating on the fundamentals and weighing lightly the circumstantials...