Word: worshiping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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EARLY AUTUMN-Louis Bromfield - Stokes ($2). Ancestor-worship in New England, where "thoughts grow higher and fewer...
...grilled in Arthur's restaurant yesterday. The veteran flunkey of the Lampoon building was raked over the coals by Cambridge sleuths and cleared of all changes following an unauthorized smoker held early yesterday morning in Arthur's Smoke Shop, which resulted in the theft of accessories necessary to the worship of Lady Nicotine...
...early Greek literature we find constant reference to singing and dancing together; they seem to have been inseparably wedded. Most true is this in the religious ceremony, and indeed it was in worship of the gods that the molpe was most generally employed. A bard, with a lyre, stood in the center of the dancing ring, and instituted the dance, and conducted and led the movements, singing to his lyre, and accompanied by the dancers themselves. Later, the dancing chorus was divided into singing and dancing units; from this division came the use of the chorus as in Greek drama...
...Nature-worship, as manifested in this deification of the revolving year, was not purely worship of the aesthetic. The people felt that behind it all was a sprit of eternal goodness and truth and beauty that breaks the yearning heart. Contemplation of this beauty lifted the worshipper to such raptures of desire and abortion that mere words could not express the feelings, and motion was the natural outlet, however feel, for the pent-up emotions. So in the Molpe we find the primal expression of exaltation and worship that is present in all better poetry since...
...subconscious current of his inspiration ever buoying him up. Just as the song of the Molpe was the product of inspiration and craftsmanship, so have all the great poems come from such a combination. There must be the emotional ecstasy, the detachment from self, and the sense of worship of something fair and supernal and immortal, but with this, hand in hand, must march a care and pride in craft, that keeps the mind and spirit working together that the result may be as lofty as possible...