Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Solemn Ritual...
After Tap Day a Bones man takes the veil, spends most of his time with fellow Bones men. Twice each week (Thursday and Saturday or Sunday evenings) they meet for a hearty dinner and secret ritual in a bronze-doored, brownstone, windowless "tomb" in a dark corner of the campus...
...ritual is said to include wrestling matches (from which they often emerge in tatters) and critical bull sessions in which members tell each other their faults, prod each other to strive for Success. Main room in the tomb is reputed to have a marble altar and an illuminated skull...
...across the roof of the jungle on rattan vines like tightrope walkers. They have two chief occupations: 1) raising rice in small clearings of the jungle; 2) hunting heads. Not so prevalent as in the past, head-hunting is still a sport and a ritual among some savage Luzon tribes, where a young buck often cannot qualify for marriage until he has snicked off an enemy head. Head-hunting was one of the things the officials in Pantabangan (Nueva Ecija Province) wanted to discuss, when they invited the Ibilaos...
...Restoration, a corresponding burst of secular music was due. If there had been any trend toward a revitalization of Church music, it would have been stifled by the personality of the king. When Charles II attended church, he did not want music that expressed the inner essence of the ritual. He wanted to be amused and entertained; he wanted lively rhythms and catchy melodies, something to hum while waiting for the service to be over. Thus we have the peculiar fact of an age in which scarcely a drop of true religious music was composed...