Word: ritualism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trickled down the knife, dripped into a wooden bowl. A fourth said he had been handed the bowl of blood, ordered to paint Sir Ofori's stool with it. As the jurors could see, the stool had been painted. Fitted together, these bits of testimony spelled out the ritual of an ancient, sacrificial funeral rite...
...trial lasted 23 days. All of the defendants offered alibis. Two, in addition, claimed as proof of innocence the fact that they had been circumcised. Circumcised persons are forbidden to join in the ritual of painting stools with human blood. The seven jurors (six natives, one European) retired, scanned the exhibits, deliberated three hours. The verdict: all defendants guilty...
Rainbow Island (Paramount) is a Technicolored mythical kingdom somewhere west of Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard, inhabited by Dorothy Lamour and sarong, three shipwrecked seamen (Eddie Bracken, Gil Lamb, Barry Sullivan), and assorted natives. It involves: 1) an aquacade sequence-a ritual of "purification" for Miss Lamour; 2) a comedy act involving Eddie Bracken and a very hungry man-eating flower; 3) some amusingly parodistic Oriental music by Roy Webb and a catchy song, The Boogie, Woogie, Boogie Man; 4) enough general ribbing of sarong and tomtom pictures to make a thin but fairly likable piece of musical ridiculousness...
...never goes through the ritual of addressing the ball, without preliminary ado just steps up and hits it; he figures that he would lose about 25% of his effectiveness if he stopped to fiddle and fuss...
...brief ritual consists of five hymns, parts of the 103rd and 46th Psalms, a Litany of Dedication, a Litany of Intercession, many a prayer. Besides the expected thanksgiving, the prayers also petition that God "may keep us humble in victory; forbid that we should harbor hatreds or revenge...