Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ones"), or the joyful Kiddush ("We praise Thee, O God, and thank Thee . . ."). Unlike the choirmaster or organist in a Christian church, the cantor (although not ordained) holds a semisacred office; the prayers he sings are an integral part of the service, and he must be trained in Jewish ritual...
...year, because they could not afford both a cantor and a badly needed new organ.* they decided to buy the organ. But during choir practice recently, temple trustees were struck by a soloist who had not only a rich mezzo-soprano, but a sound knowledge of Hebrew language and ritual. Last week they decided that Mrs. Betty Robbins, an attractive, 31-year-old Massapequa housewife, should be their cantor for Rosh Hashanah. With that decision, they swept away 5,000 years of Jewish tradition...
...attractive blonde correspondent managed to keep her children calm and file her election dispatches for FOREIGN NEWS' Ritual Day. Monica is not one to let motherhood interfere for long with journalism. Twice she has sent us cryptic cables to the effect that she would be out of touch briefly. Each time we received from her, in about ten days, excellent story suggestions with the notations that she had taken time out for childbearing...
...Israel, politics, like the struggle for survival, can be bitter. Charges and countercharges by the 18 rival parties were almost as explosive as the bombs which blasted a candidate's home, a political rally and an election meeting. But Election Day last week was a ritual as solemn as any that democracy provides. People wore Sabbath clothes, and there was a Sabbath-like quiet in the air. Some 800,000 voters, half of whom cannot speak or write the language of the country with any fluency, entered the polling booth, carefully selected a slip bearing that...
...Ritual Orgies. Fitzgerald married Zelda on the $5,000 advance royalties of his first novel, This Side of Paradise, and they set off on a mad fling that was to span the decade, cover a couple of continents, and wind up with Scott an inveterate alcoholic and Zelda a hopeless schizophrenic. Fitzgerald's literary agent, Harold Ober, told radio listeners where the money came from: short stories, at $4,000 a story. Friendly Critic Malcolm Cowley defined the double vision that helped Fitzgerald command such prices: "He was a man of the 1920s who took part in the ritual...