Word: sacramentalism
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Their word games, their parties, are the new rituals and ceremonies. Their sacrament is adultery. The binding force of the new religion is not love but sexuality. The community is united not by faith or the Host, but by the orifices of the body. Together the couples form a congregation, "a circle of heads to keep out the night...
...American Church, which claims an affiliation with the Native American Church, an authentic sect of primitive nature worshipers among the American Indian tribes in the Southwest. The connection is not the hippie love of red men but the fact that the Indians use the hallucinogenic drug peyote as a sacrament in their ceremonies...
...speeches droned on for two hours, as Phil Ochs and Peter, Paul and Mary (remember?) soured a few songs, as the crowd became more and more restless, a strange thing happened. It was becoming evident that here around the Reflecting Pool people were celebrating the last sacrament of an irrelevant form of protest. The crowd was itching to get going, to bury the numbers game once and for all, to do something hard and steely and significant this time...
Leary visited Cambridge last May and dressed in guru-like white robes told an audience at M.I.T. that LSD was "a way-of-life and a sacrament" because a sacrament "is something that gets you high...
...seen in the reconstructed Old Town district and along Krakowskie Przed-miescie, a popular promenade. Nowhere perhaps is the correspondence between art and life more striking than in the New Town Market Square (see color opposite). There stands the lovely baroque Church of the Nuns of the Holy Sacrament, completed in 1687 in fulfillment of a vow made by Queen Maria Kazimiera as her husband, King John Sobieski, rode into battle against the Turks (he won). In August 1944, during the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, the entire church and its adjacent convent were leveled by bombs and artillery shells...