Word: ritualism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There, finished with public ritual for the day, Ike passed a quiet afternoon alone with his family, contemplating a merciful dispensation from his cautious doctors. Just this once, said they, he could fall off the diet wagon (1,800 calories daily), filling up on as much of the Eisenhower's 4O-lb. turkey and trimmings as he thought he ought to. At dusk, Ike sat down to his groaning board and followed doctors' orders...
Faced with their youngsters' firm determination to marry whom they wish, many Japanese parents tend to bow to the inevitable, masking their parental pride behind a face-saving ritual in which the already-well-acquainted couple are formally introduced to each other. Many an urban bridegroom has a new respect for his prize. At Meiji Hall last week, one busy girl marriage clerk noted with satisfaction that nine out of every ten grooms let their brides step into the marriage limousine before them...
...best part of the whole film is the choreography of Micheal Kidd. In his final ballet, he transforms a crap game in a sewer into an urgent, exciting tribal ritual that shows Runyon's saints and sinners, the guys and dolls of Broadway, far more clearly than they appear above ground. This dance alone makes the movie worth seeing...
...rich Jains who compose the temple committees were appalled. Complained one: "How can priests be dedicated to poverty if they go about forming unions and making wage demands?" Gasped another: "Who will perform puja [ritual prayer] before the gods when the temple priests are having their...
Between the gods and the faithful who worship at the 100 Jain* temples of Ahmedabad in western India stand 600-odd priests. Theirs is a hard and holy life; they say ritual prayers, guard temple treasures, abstain from smoking and drinking, sup before sundown (for lamps lure moths to destruction), and wear white cloth pads over their noses and mouths (lest their breathing destroy gnats or germs). Their wages never exceed $5 a month...