Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Channeled and sped by a masterful artist, the intense lives of Leah and Eli deepen into profound currents that bear all the sorrows of their tragic, ritual-fed race. The rocks that split them, darkly inevitable, grip into the beds of their courses with roots that were when first men and women searched their souls. Told in fierce words and gentle, dull words and shining, words sweet as wild honey, words bitter as black gall-here is a Book...
...week in Rome, in St. Peter's, was celebrated the silver jubilee of the day in 1900 when he became titular bishop of Nicaea. The ceremony was simple, because of the recent death of the Cardinal's mother. The great basilica was almost empty. With the ancient ritual, before assembled ecclesiastics, Merry del Val said mass. As he came down from the altar, the Te Deum of thanksgiving pealed forth...
Study fares little better in the university of today than did the service in the monastery. Study tends to become a perfunctory ritual and learning a vanishing tradition in an atmosphere of organized athletics and campus activities and social functions, which are coming to call for the best inventive resource and most solicitous thought, and largest serious expenditure of time on the part of teacher and student...
Crowds filled the pink-steepled church. The ritual of the service toned on. Finally, at the ritual's end, curtains were drawn across the sanctuary. The church, according to Rector Guthrie, was no longer a church but an auditorium...
...spiritous liquor and water on man. The scientists called themselves "supper philosophers" and as the story relates, it sometimes happened that they pursued their investigation a little too far, and that occasionally the supper was rather too much for the philosopher. With the passing of eating as a ritual and philosophy as an avocation rustication, too, has passed...