The heavens […] dropped at the presence of God.

The lady drops a courtesy in token of obedience, and the ceremony proceeds as usual.

But it’s doomed, alas, like all attempts to hypnotise the play-goer with twiddlesome tricks.

However, cultural pluralism was rejected by many whites, who ethnocentrically and racistly affirmed the inherent superiority of their own group, and who maintained that accommodation between the races could be established only on the basis of dominance and submission. They demanded separateness, but not equality.