Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...signing up stars is an uncertain enterprise. To make sure that cinema studios won't interrupt Lux plans by whisking actors away to distant locations, the Radio Theatre has established an elaborate understudy system. Rehearsals begin on Thursday, continue until air time Monday night. Part of the ritual of every rehearsal is a spot of tea, a custom introduced by Hollywood's British contingent. Seldom on hand until Saturday. De Mille, who receives $2,000 a week for his stint, sits quietly through rehearsals, patiently corrects his script as Barnett suggests. But he blossoms out each Monday night...
...spirit, enjoined them to remain celibate. Sister and brother Shakers lived together as large "families," in communities headed by elders and elderesses of equal authority. Their large frame houses, in which the floors were divided to segregate men & women, still stand as marvels of pegged construction. They worshiped, with ritual marches, dances, gesticulations, in great meetinghouses. At a Shaker dance, brothers & sisters lined up facing each other, with palms upturned to receive God's blessings, singing songs like Shake Off the Flesh...
...illumination to the soul." When they gather for worship they keep silent, knowing that this "Inner Light" will move them to say what is fitting when it is fitting. (If no one is moved after an hour of quiet, the meeting is over.) Quakers have little ritual, no ordained priesthood. Their societies are organized simply in Preparative Meetings (one or more congregations), Monthly Meetings (one or more Preparative Meetings), Quarterly Meetings (members from several Monthly Meetings), Yearly Meetings (members from several Quarterly Meetings), General Conferences (numerous Yearly Meetings). At Cape May,N. J., 1,300 U. S. Quakers met last...
...pharmacopoeia. Rancher Gill succeeded in all three tasks. The best parts of his somewhat flamboyantly written book (Sample: "The days streaked by like frightened parrots") report how the searcher succeeded, how he won the confidence of the suspicious brujos (witch men), how he learned the secret ingredients, the magic ritual and recipe for mixing and brewing curare...
...solemn ritual of Commencement Day with its many traditional elements will include the participation of University officers, faculty members, representatives of Church and State, and special guests, in a formal procession to the opening of the ceremonies at 10 o'clock by the sheriff for Middlesex County, and a Latin oration by a Senior...