Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moslem woman, she frequented the bazaars and harems. Their great friends were Abd-el-Kadir, an almost legendary chieftain who had held out for 15 years against the French, and Jane Digby El Mezrab, the Mabel Dodge Luhan of her time. The four of them used to have ritual evening meals on the roof, "and after that we would smoke our narghilehs and talk and talk and talk far into the night...
Frazer demolished the Rousseauist notion that primitive man was blithe and free. Harassed by taboos at every hand, besieged by demons, snarled in ritual, the savage was far more vexed than civilized man with traffic lights, time clocks, income taxes. And Frazer revealed that the customs and rituals of civilization are forest-rooted, that vestiges of magic are everywhere...
Expressing his appreciation that so many came to hear him, "Copey" said he believed it was far better to hear the Bible read aloud than to hear it in church with the accompanying drama and deep emotion. The Bible is part of a solemn ritual, according to Copey and should not be read with dramatic enthusiasm...
...most socially conscious New Dealer in the Roman Catholic hierarchy was raised to archiepiscopal dignity last week in the person of sandy-haired, twinkling-eyed Most Rev. Robert Emmet Lucey. With all the pomp and circumstance of his church's ritual, he was enthroned as Archbishop of San Antonio. The Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Pope Pius XII's Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., himself installed him. For the dozens of bishops and archbishops, the scores of red-robed monsignori, the hundreds of priests and nuns, the thousands of lay folk who jammed San Fernando Cathedral...
...Chenkin Recital (Columbia: 8 sides; $3.50). U. S. disc debut of a Russian-born singing actor who first appeared in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg, has since performed in Paris and Manhattan. In costume and makeup, Actor Chenkin is equally plausible as a bearded gaffer or a youngster with Jewish ritual earlocks. Here he sings in Yiddish and Hebrew, deftly sets forth the garrulity, gaiety, self-pitying anguish of an Eastern European Jew. Typical song: Scholoch S'udes, in which a rabbi unctuously presides at a banquet...