Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part, only a small part, of the Dickeys' elaborate ritual required that each neophyte be branded on the arm with a lighted cigar. Mr. William Lloyd Garrison's son was duly branded...
...Toynbee's attitude toward Judaism is ambivalent. He is highly eloquent about its spiritual and moral values, inevitably sees it as the fount of Christian civilization. But he also deplores its exclusive or "chosen people" attitude, regards its ritual adherence to the Law as an archaic dead end, accuses Zionism of attempting to achieve the Messianic promise of the Jews' return to Israel through force. Toynbee's sentiments-and scholarship-on Judaism are the subject of an angry attack by noted Jewish Author Maurice Samuel (The Professor and the Fossil, Knopf; $4), who believes that Toynbee...
...represented the sun god; to early Christians the goldfinch depicted the crucifixion. Seldom has this multiform fascination been better illustrated than in the 160 paintings, bronzes, jugs, vases and primitive musical instruments on show last week at the Seattle Art Museum, a display ranging from a bird-shaped Chinese ritual vessel done around 1100 B.C. to the hopping-mad, moonstruck sea gulls and cranes of Northwest Moderns Mark Tobey and Morris Graves...
There were pictures of native food dishes, a wedding, some folk dances, the geisha (who, by the way, are not prostitutes but rigorously trained and highly respected dancers and entertainers), the No drama, festivals and ritual processions, as well as shots of college life. Many of the views were of Kyoto, to my mind the most beautiful large city in the world and the least Westernized of the Japanese metropolises...
...Angoff, do you mean to tell me that they didn't teach you the fine points of wines and whiskeys at Harvard?' " 'No, I'm afraid they didn't,' I would say, prepared for what was to come, for we went through this ritual numberless times...