Word: worshiper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Apley may have been a snob-but he also had something for which his creator had undisguised admiration: "Essential and undeviating discipline of background." Wickford Point came even closer to home. It was the story of a popular writer, a Harvard graduate, reacting against the decadence and futile ancestor worship of his tumble-down New England family. And if the hero had the unmistakable air of the author himself-the pipe-smoking, tweedy, dressed-by-Brooks-Brothers blueblood-the hero's family was also unquestionably Marquand...
...better to encounter a deadly poisonous snake than a woman," say the Buddhist priests of the Shugen sect, who worship the Eight Dragon God, Hachidai Ryuo, at the temple of Japan's Mount Sanjogatake. For 1,300 years the Shugen monks have seen to it that no female climbed their mountain or entered their Ryusenji Temple. Undisturbed, they practiced their ascetic disciplines-walking barefoot through fires of logs and leaves while reciting sutras, plunging into freezing pools, hanging by their ankles over vertiginous cliffs while confessing their sins. (A favorite fillip of the monks is to dangle novices carelessly...
...miko is a kind of medium and rural sorceress to whom people come for advice on marriage and business. This particular miko had a large following of women in what the Japanese politely call "the water trades"-prostitutes, bar hostesses, geishas. The miko told them to worship the Eight Dragon God at the Ryusenji Temple. That tore it. Last week at Ryusenji, 200 dignitaries, headed by the Governor of Nara, chanted sutras and presented altar lilies to the brand-new vermilion temple, which was being dedicated to replace the old one, burned down in 1946. And 500 women arrived...
...further instance of empirical logic is indicated in the Levitical laws on taboo and hygiene. The speaker rejected the theory that the law prohibiting the eating of pork derived from pagan use of this animal in idol worship. He also doubted that one could ascribe theological-philosophical motives as discipline, development of group identity to the dietary laws at the time of their inception, though he acknowledged that they could be given a "theological-political treatment" in the post-Israelite period...
Impediments & Insufficiencies. The grounds for nullification fall into three categories: 1) impediment, 2) insufficiency of consent, 3) faulty canonical form. Impediments include underage (brides must be 14, grooms 16), impotence (but not sterility), disparity of worship (a Catholic cannot, without dispensation, validly marry a person who has not been baptized), abduction (a valid ground only for brides), crime (such as murdering one's mate to marry another), consanguinity, though in certain cases dispensation can be granted, "public honesty" (a man living with a concubine cannot marry into her family, and vice versa...