Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's revival, King George washed no feet, wore no towel. Only survival of the pedilavium ritual was the towel-like sash of linen worn by the King's Almoner. King George in the costume of an English gentleman handed each of the 67 men and 67 women (one of each for each year of his age) a scarlet purse containing ?2 108 in gold, to take the place of the new clothing they are supposed to receive, and a white purse containing 67d in specially minted silver coins. At the week's end the recipients...
...prisoner's stolid, blanketed kinsmen sat in the sun outside the courthouse, occasionally rising to peer curiously through the windows at a ritual they did not understand. Some of the more adventurous found a place in Globe where "the picture that dances" was being exhibited. Cinema ushers had to limit them to two performances in succession for one admission...
...starved with the rest, always he pondered how to materialize his vision. At 17 he grew sick with fear because he could do nothing. An old medicine man advised him: "You must do your duty and perform this vision for your people upon earth." Together they organized an elaborate ritual dance. All the people acted out Black Elk's vision in detail. After the dance everybody, even the horses, felt better. Black Elk lost his fear, taught his people more dances, one comic one with heyokas (clowns) to cheer the people up. Suddenly power came to him to cure...
...blow that will have its repercussions. One of the most profound of American traditions is that of the glad hand, and the spectacle of a harassed individual going through the ritual of shaking hands with a line of free, independent citizens has become a symbol of the Democratic spirit. The story of the retired farmer, who has been first in line at every New Year's reception for a half-century, indicates the attraction which the ritual has for the popular mind. Until it is re-instituted, there will be very little in a trip to Washington for John Robinson...
...Norman Guthrie came to St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie in 1910, he found it a quiet old place, preached many a Sunday sermon to a congregation of some 25 people, most of them old ladies. He soon changed that by inviting Parsees, Chinese, Persians to conduct their rituals in St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie. The Protestant Episcopal Diocese of New York began to twitter. In 1923 there was a famed dance service, celebrating the feast of St. Nicholas, which was erroneously reported in the Press as a "bare-leg, bare-hip affair." Actually it was performed...