Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first anniversary of the atomic bomb were Rodeo Day in the Texas Panhandle. They jammed movie houses to see special anniversary shows, stampeded in the city's makeshift department stores to take advantage of bargain sales in Hiroshima-made products. The day ended with a bangup ritual lantern dance on the grounds of a Shinto shrine...
...sermons, Preacher-Professor Hedley asked the students what they wanted to hear, learned they were most puzzled by the differences between the major sects of Christianity. Hedley's resulting sermons boosted chapel attendance about 25%. As he described each sect, Methodist Hedley did his best to approximate its ritual; i.e., for his sermon on Quakers he took down decorations and cross, sat in a business suit in the front...
...typical ritual, according to William Seabrook, late, hard-drinking popularizer of the incredible: "Before an altar surmounted by a crucifix turned upside down, and on which the girl who is a virgin lies naked, the black-robed priest intones parts of the true Mass backward, in dog Latin, substituting the word 'evil' for 'good' and the word 'Satan' for 'God.' The prostitute, robed in scarlet, performs the duties of acolyte; the goblet of wine is placed between the breasts of the recumbent virgin and a part of the wine is spilled over...
...whose name was Henryk Blasczyk, said that he had been held prisoner in the building, that he had seen the bodies of 15 Gentile children killed by the Jews, that he had escaped through a broken window. The myth of ritual murder by Jews is an ancient one in anti-Semitic Poland; last week, as many times before, it turned the Polish crowd into a pack of bloodthirsty maniacs...
...black pipe, charred and chewed, is almost as famous as his classroom ritual "Now you can see at once"--a hopeful, declaration usually followed by the most profound point of the day's lecture. His lectures are invariably provocative and stimulating, and his students can hardly escape acquiring his scholarly attitude...