Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bouwerie Maidens in "gowns of a flimsy character," dancing, prancing lightly in the nave of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, glorifying God and the American girl, with Matthew, Mark, Luke and John looking on. They are gone. The famed "eurythmic ritual," so notable a feature of the afternoon services in the Manhattan church last year, will be dispensed with this season, announced the Rector, Dr. William Norman Guthrie. His reasons for discontinuing the dances were described by Dr. Guthrie as "rather physical than spiritual." The difficulties of their preparation, together with the necessity for cutting down the Church...
...soldiers' bonus. In and out through corridors of files, with a dozen typewriters clicking in his ears at every turn, a battalion of adding machines belching forth figures from every cranny and 2,700 acolytes, spread over eleven acres of floor space, putting 20,000 requests through the ritual every day, the President wandered, and emerged with a smile?and Secretary Davis...
Never mind whether it "may be compared in finish with the best of the Broadway productions"--it may not. It is a Pudding show, obliged at times to stick inside the limitations of the current ritual of honky-tonk, but for the most part fresh as no Broadway show will ever be, inspired, perspiring, untiring, and at times downright comical. At no time will it be mistaken for a page from Hans Christia nor John Murray Anderson; there are, however, moments in it when the mournful editors of Punch and Life would wish to God they had thought of that...
...service or a special form of worship not contained in or selected from the Book of Common Prayer nor authorized by this Church or by the Bishops of this Church or the Bishop of this diocese, which you described in your printed announcement as an office and eurythmic ritual in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary for the Feast of the Annunciation and also as a festal service in which service or special order of worship, in disregard of my counsel and admonition, you used and permitted to be used eurythmic or other dancing in the said church...
...dramatization of rationalism with ritual beauty...