Word: ritualism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was an unspoken ritual in the pubs. When the buzz of a bomb or the repeated wail of an alarm as heard, the customers put down their drinks, walked out. whistling. Even the street was safer than a place of bottles and mirrors. The danger passed, they returned to their beer...
...Tree Inclined. Gorer thinks that this infant training, and the repressed rebellion against it, are at the root of Japanese character-devotion to ritual, neatness and order; horror of dirt (except away from home, where dirt is a gesture of contempt for foreigners); unrestrained savagery against helpless peoples; preoccupation with "face" (which Gorer traces to Japanese parents' sensitiveness to ridicule of an ill-behaved child by outsiders). The Japanese, says Gorer, do not stick together well under attack; they readily turn against a fellow countryman placed in a ridiculous position by outsiders-a fact which, he thinks, accounts...
Harvard Commencements have followed the M.A. ritual for all degrees. In the medieval universities the Bachelors or Arts had their own ceremonies and Commencement. At Oxford and Cambridge the candidates had to appear in the University Church every week-day in Len and argue in Latin with any Bachelor on Master who challenged them...
...willing to wait for pie in the sky. The new heaven must be an earthly one; the new priests must be secular. For his new religion, Laski turns to Soviet Russia, where men make a fetish of community and a faith of cooperation. Laski substitutes the state for ritual, the shared consumption of goods and services for God. The whole world must come to his way of thinking, says he, or else be prepared for a new dark age. All of this comes under the heading of "Faith." Just where the "Reason" and the "Civilization" come in is not apparent...
...Technicolor, this friendly piece of grave robbery substitutes drawling charm for the rawboned, murderous innocence of the frontier. A pretty Indian girl (Linda Darnell) teaches Bill Cody how to write a presentable letter to his pretty Eastern bride-to-be (Maureen O'Hara). Likewise prettily, in a coy ritual with a blanket, they plight their troth. When Bill and his wife break up there is no hint of the fact that he was quite a bronco buster with the ladies, nor does he follow history by accusing his wife of trying to poison him. Notably absent from the picture...