Word: ritualism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last year I attended my first funeral, and I was dumfounded at the pagan ritual it turned...
Jeremiah began his public life at the same time that the Book oj the Law was discovered in the temple at Jerusalem. On the basis of the Law the Jewish priesthood undertook a sweeping reform of current religious practice. Jeremiah bitterly opposed the resulting emphasis on ritual and statute. The priests and temple prophets threw him into bondage and imprisonment for his views, and sometimes his grief at Israel's indifference burst from him. in the kind of lamentation that ever since has been labeled with his name...
...Mexico's traditional pre-Christmas parties, when visitors go from house to house bearing lighted candles and singing the traditional words that ask shelter for the holy figures. The hosts sing an answer, saying, like the innkeeper of ancient Judea, that all the beds are taken. The ritual over, everyone troops inside for food & drink...
Soon he was calling regularly at the teahouse. For long evenings he sat cross-legged and entranced while Yuki taught him the ritual of tea-drinking and a fascinating game in which two players vie for a paper hoop by trying to catch it on paper hooks held under the lower lip. In no time the young American was begging O-Yuki to marry...
Dean Bender, in voicing full approval of the Council committee's aims yesterday, suggested that "there is no need for the ritual and paraphernalia that accompany some of the Key societies. The essential point is that Harvard students should want to help welcome guests, athletic or otherwise, from other colleges rather than leave them out in the cold...