Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parliamentarians of the Knesset have been egg-walking through a series of compromises between the secular and sacred. The rabbinate has even made a few tactical concessions (most recent: rescinding the rule that before marriage all brides must produce a "certificate of purity" given after a visit to the ritual bath). But for the most part, Polish-born Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog and his fellow rabbis have dug in their heels and refused to budge, confident in the prophecy of the great 12th century philosopher, Maimonides, that "in the end Israel will return...
...with the cover is not the only thing Muggeridge has done. Under his regime, writing and drawing are firmly tied to the news ("If a joke has no relevance, or its connections are obsolete, it's out"). As a result, putting Punch to press-once a quiet, timeless ritual-now has all the excitement of a city room covering a fast-breaking, big news story. Articles on the uproar in Iran are jammed in at press time, issues are held to make them more timely, reports on the United Nations, Korea and hydrogen bomb replace such old Punch standbys...
Kinsey's only concession to the social amenities is to hold Sunday-evening record recitals. But he is no relaxed amateur. He is a relentless musicologist, and his soirees are an exacting ritual. He plans a carefully balanced program and gathers material for commentary. Guests arrive on the stroke of 8 and are seated in a hieratic U pattern with the high-fidelity player and the master's chair at the open end of the U. All talk is hushed as Kinsey picks up the first record and announces why he thinks it worth playing. The ladies...
...music lovers it is an honor to be invited to a Kinsey soiree. But some have stopped going because the emotional undertones in Kinsey's intensity made them uncomfortable. Though he drinks and smokes only rarely, to put others at their ease, Kinsey makes an equally elaborate ritual of mixing a drink. (He is no kin to the late Jacob G. Kinsey, whose name graces bottles of blended whisky, although Philadelphia's Kinsey Distilling Corp. keeps getting requests for "free sex books," and sells more whisky, thanks to its namesake...
...place was different, the names unfamiliar, but the ritual was the same. Instead of Czechoslovakia or Poland, it was North Korea; instead of Slansky or Gomulka, it was Lee Sung Yup. Last week the voice of Radio Moscow, which has tolled doom for hundreds of topdog Communists, called the roll of 12 more-North Koreans who "confessed" that they had spied and plotted on behalf of the U.S. and South Korea to overthrow Premier Kim II Sung and install a "new capitalistic government" in pitted, desolate North Korea...