Word: ritual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative revolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice...
...clustered Tibet's most powerful lamas, abbots and monks. They had come in the country's hour of peril, with Chinese Communist invaders lodged deep in the Himalayan upland, to witness the coronation of the 14th Dalai Lama, the reincarnated Buddha of Mercy. Hours of prayer and ritual reached a climax when the adolescent god-king accepted the great jade seal of supreme Tibetan authority on which is engraved the motto "Victory in All Directions...
While Holy Trinity Church is nominally Anglican and title to the building rests with the Church of England in Canada, Pastor Barrow has made its liturgy a blend of Protestant ritual. Anglican Holy Communion services are followed by interdenominational services. United Church communion rites are performed regularly. Sunday school classes are taught from literature published by various Protestant faiths. Holy Trinity's board is elected with such impartiality that its chairman, Dr. G. M. Bastedo, could not recall last week the denominations of its members. Said Dr. Bastedo: "It doesn't really matter. We are all just Protestants...
...Waldorf-Astoria. He served sandwiches to fortify J. P. Morgan on the wintry eve of a Wall Street panic, catered to "Diamond Jim" Brady, Generals Grant and Sherman, various Presidents and kings. Until he retired in 1943, he managed to keep dinner at the Waldorf a fastidious, expensive ritual despite Prohibition, the rise of the sandwich, and shortages brought on by wars...
...exactly 2:30 p.m. every work day, Mr. George (who eats no lunch) goes through a 70-year-old ritual. He nibbles cookies and cake while he makes a "blind" test of five brands of coffee, including A & P's three blends (Eight O'Clock, Red Circle, Bokar) to make sure that the flavor of the company's coffee has not changed...