Word: rubrics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knowledge of art criticism and my command of the written work wouldn't impress a Hottentot, but even I feel justified in crying out in painful protest against the flatulent, inane farce parading in Saturday's Crimson under the pretentious rubric of "Collections and Critiques." I don't mean farce; I mean tragedy. For Fogg's current exhibition of modern French art--Degas, Daumier, Renoir, Picasso--would stir the most rudimentary, untutored aesthetic consciousness. Yet it could not evoke in your criticism even the most backneyed cliches of our introductory fine arts courses, which, after all, whether trite or significant...
Last week Episcopalians were re-examining the nature of Communion, with special reference to a rubric in the Book of Common Prayer which reads: "There shall be none admitted to the Holy Communion, until such time as he be confirmed, or be ready and desirous to be confirmed." On its face, this rubric would seem to bar non-Episcopalians from taking Communion at Episcopal altars. Last winter the issue arose when churchmen of numerous faiths attended an "open Communion" service in the National Cathedral in Washington (TIME, Jan. 31). Last month, under Anglo-Catholic leadership, about one-fifth...
...Liberal Evangelical conference in Manhattan last week, Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, well-beloved onetime Dean of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, went into the history of open Communion. Pointing out that the controversial rubric dates back to 1281, when there were no Reformed churches, Dr. Robbins rested the Liberal Evangelical case upon the fact that canon law makes no reference to open Communion, that the rubric was intended to apply only to members of the church...
...Hudson River, in a parish noted for the idiosyncrasy of its rector, there have lately been a number of baptisms. In each of these, at a certain point, the rector has taken the babies to be baptized, following the Prayer Book rubric: Then the minister shall take the child into his arms. ... At the end of the service, however, he has refused to return the baby to the parents...
...Living Church gleefully discovered, Prayer Book rubric definitely allows the minister to take the child for baptism, but nowhere definitely allows him to return it to its parents...