Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Randora" is what we use," explained Corbeil. "That means 'free play, catch-as-catch-can. It's nothing but Angle-Saxon wrestling with a ritual...
...symbols now mean nothing. For this reason, says Jung, Roman Catholicism is generally more effective today than other churches, and he rarely finds Catholics in need of individuation. Says Jung: "[Catholicism] is a full-fledged religion. Protestantism is not. Religions consist of a doctrine and a rite. The ritual does not exist in Protestantism : it has only one leg to stand on - justification through faith alone. The Catholic Church has the rite too, with all its magic effects." Jung himself has not been to church for years, but when asked if he believes in God, he says: "I could...
Philosopher & Friend. Author Duff (who holds a law degree) argues that the public should be admitted to hangings, as it was in England until 1868, so that the people may share once more in Britain's "ancient and symbolical ritual." By selling film rights to hangings, the master executioners could be rewarded with more than their present fee (about $44 a knot). Moreover, says Duff, hangings should be broadcast for their highly dramatic sound effects, such as "the crack like a muffled shot of a small pistol which indicates the official breaking of the criminal's neck...
...rain, he ran down the American flag, took a brand-new one from a box and ran it up the staff. Then he quickly lowered it, raised the old flag and, clutching the new one, crept back downstairs. All year long, U.S. Capitol policemen go through this same ritual. They are fulfilling requests from Congressmen for flags that have "flown over the Capitol." Police Private Dix C. Boone (the Capitol's flag-raising specialist) spends as much as two hours a day, raising and lowering 40 or more flags...
...beaten and shackled to a steel fence in symbolic martyrdom. He stabs his mistress after she accuses him of incestuous love for Annina. In a bleak subway station, he curses Annina when she insists on taking the veil. And finally Annina becomes the bride of Christ in a chilling ritual...