Word: ritualism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interested bystander af the ritual: Greek Immigrant Spyros P. Skouras, president of 20th Century-Fox, who nominated the general last week to be a new member of his board of directors...
Track coach Bill McCurdy gets worried when he feels too good. Although he attests to being "versus superstition," McCurdy does admit one ritual he performed faithfully in the days when high jumper Ty Smith was on the team. "Every time he jump, I'd turn away," confessed the track coach. But McCurdy maintains that he hasn't been coaching long enough to develop any real superstitions...
...Opposed to Plato's philosophy and the Greek search for philosophic wisdom, the Jewish Pharisees clung to a law of stern, ritual purity. Each tradition, in Bruckberger's view, was deficient. But broken, then united by Christ's love, they merged to give Christianity both its traditional faith and its abstract philosophy...
...have become a monster, Augustus Hare grew up a mannerly eccentric. He never married, but about four times a year he drew a black cross in his journal to mark his incontinencies. When Maugham got to know him, Augustus Hare's days were already numbered, and swaddled in ritual. They began at 8 a.m. with a cup of tea and two slices of thin buttered bread. This was followed by morning prayers, Augustus reading, guests kneeling. Maugham found that Augustus had inked out many lines in the Book of Common Prayer, and asked why. "I've crossed...
...Count d'Orgel, in fact, was a lineal prig, living & breathing for social ritual The Orgels met François de Séryeuse at the circus one night and invited him to lunch. Soon he and Mahaut were talking about their childhood lives in the country. François words refreshed her like a gift of wild flowers...