Word: ritualism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Academic Ritual...
...other craftsmen, including a Cherokee with an eight-foot blowpipe who can hit a bull's-eye at 100 paces. Over half the work shown was contemporary. That it was a far cry from the usual stuff sold to tourists was due in many cases to its ritual character, and also to the fact that Indians, sensibly, sell only junk at junk prices...
...afternoons are spent walking about the grounds, smoking a few specially-made Mignon brand Egyptian cigarets, which he imports from a Manhattan tobacconist, and reading books on history, philosophy and politics. From 5 to 8:30 he plays the piano, then dines and spends the evening in the nightly ritual of a bridge game. At 10:30 he shuffles...
Jennie's pathetic, irritating, irrational and commonplace little rebellion is not merely an outbreak of Southern emotionalism. It is, rather, the last stand of her independence. All society, exemplified by aunts, veterans, parents and brothers, seems to be forcing her into a complicated ritual which has nothing to do with her relations with the doctor. As a result all the trappings-the flags, costumes, bridesmaids-seem as quaint and unreal as an anthropologist's description of some South Sea Islanders' marriage rite. Jennie surrenders, but only after she has discovered, by making eyes at the best...
Last week champions of culture received a severe setback when Manhattan's famed Neurologist Foster Kennedy, an opera enthusiast who prides himself on his florid literary style, came out with a blast against liberal college educations for physicians. "The ritual of education is devouring our youth," he told members of the New York Neurological Society. Training in a liberal arts college only "imposes infantilism" on a prospective medical student. Such training does not teach students to think scientifically for "the collection of credits in courses of oddments" can be gained by "agglutination of the tail to a wooden bench...