Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actually important enough that wars have been fought for it. Russia certainly regards her national honor as highly as the United States. So if the Russian government believes it must make concessions, it would rather dress them up in conference form than as preliminaries to a conference. The ritual of bargaining is important to the national honor. The country that gives in likes to go through the motions, at least, of trying to extract concessions from the victor...
...usual ritual in the legislature of Massachusetts was reversed this year as a Republican instead of a Democrat introduced a "red bill." After the House of representatives had made the annual disposition of the Dorgan-McCarthy bill requiring college presidents to fire Communists from their faculties, Senator John Adams of Andover introduced one that would take tax exemptions away from any university that refused to remove "known Communists" from its faculty and student body...
...words of the Byrd Mass be reckoned an extra-musical guide to the meaning of the work. The age had not yet come when the Latin text provided composers with the most extravagant dramatic implications. For Byrd the words of the Mass were still part of a sacred ritual which does not admit of "interpretation," but must rather be glorified by means of the most scrupulous exercise of the composer's craft...
...Will to Serve. Even more indicative of the new temper of Reform were the findings of a survey conducted by the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods. Items: ¶Three laymen in ten-and half the rabbis-now feel that their congregations should have more ritual and ceremony. ¶ There has been a marked increase in use of the ceremony of bar mizvah to admit young men to full membership in the congregation...
This is the standard scapegoat 'ritual. But Youngdahl, former Minnesota governor, has held it up, for the moment at least. In a decision as courageous as it is thoughtful, he has given the public a needed lesson in Constitutional law. Reminding that McCarran's questioning had no legal purpose but to gather information for legislation, he pointed out that perjury indictments must be relevant to that purpose to be valid. Interrogation about a man's opinions cannot be grounds for trial. Lattimore was asked whether he was a "Communist sympathizer" and whether he knew whether certain of his associates were...