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...tailored sleeves. The man who had been a cool and respected Finance Minister suddenly found himself carried on a wave of popular enthusiasm for the first time in his career. He responded with a warmth that had been rarely seen in public. His plunges into the crowd became a ritual. With almost disbelieving delight, he told a crowd in Nantes: 'At the beginning of this campaign, everyone thought it would be a predictable election with people voting the way they always did. But something happened that threw off the experts. There appeared a new popular current within our people...
Thus Peter Martyr, a Habsburg court chronicler and diplomat, greeted the Old World's first exaction upon the New: a stupendous hoard of ornaments, masks and ritual objects cast and hammered from teocuitlatl, "the gods' excrement"-as the Aztecs called gold-which Montezuma had given to the insatiable Cortes. It was shown in Europe in 1519, and nothing from it survives today. Like nearly all the gold artifacts that Spain dragged from the New World, it was melted down for bullion...
...England and spiritual leader of the 46 million Anglicans on six continents is appointed in a peculiarly secular fashion. The Prime Minister of England (in the case of Harold Wilson, a Congregationalist) submits a single name to the Queen, who as head of the church makes the ritual nomination. To be sure, the Prime Minister has received advice from church leaders, but only after the Queen's approval is the name sent, for pro forma church election, to the dean and chapter of the historic see of Canterbury...
...Evangelicals, who stem from the Evangelical Revival of the 18th century, generally lean to Calvinist theology, hold to individual conversion and biblical authority, and stress preaching more than ritual...
...directly connected to the upsurge of varied convict organizations. Most of the religious groups have contributed toward improving the quality of prison life, although one seems clearly frivolous. Prisoners at penitentiaries in Atlanta and San Quentin have formed the Church of the New Song (CONS). They claim that their ritual requires them to eat porterhouse steaks and drink Harvey's Bristol Cream sherry and are suing prison authorities to get the needed ingredients for their menu...