Word: ritualism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...core of Barnaby Conrad's Matador, a novel about bullfighting fine enough to share the shelf with Tom Lea's The Brave Bulls (TIME, April 25, 1949). Like Ernest Hemingway, whose hard-packed style accents every sentence in Matador, Novelist Conrad is steeped in the classic ritual of the corrida. (In 1945, at 23, he shared an afternoon's billing in the Seville ring with his tutor, famed Juan Belmonte, and won the bull's ears for his performance.) But his real theme is the odor of fear and courage...
Last week, after a lapse of two centuries, the ritual of individual confession was again an official practice among German Lutherans. In Flensburg a fortnight ago, the General Synod of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church* restored the same private confession which Martin Luther, in his day, had emphasized as an important means to salvation. It had been virtually abandoned since the 18th century, when most Lutheran churches, influenced by rationalist philosophy, discarded private confession as unnecessary...
Soon the affair added international implications. Citizens of Grammont, Belgium, reported that they consumed 50 at their annual "Feast of Der Krakelinge." No upstarts in the field Grammonters began the ritual in the 14th century...
...seniors, according to a Waban custom, must roll their hoops over a course a quarter of a mile long; the winner being the one most likely to marry first. Though somewhat tamer than the Indian ritual, the Wellesley version is very similar...
After being made a member of the Society of Sidewinders in Wickenburg, Ariz., Cinemactor Tyrone Power helped initiate a new group of greenhorns. The ritual: a week-long horseback ride in the desert followed by a snack of cocktails and rattlesnake meat...