Photoessay #2852 - Epidietic (new word)

My new word for yesterday -- epidietic --

It's a rhetoric word - ceremonial oratory

From Wikipedia:

This is rhetoric of ceremony, commemoration, declamation, demonstration, on the one hand, and of play, entertainment, display, including self-display. It is also the rhetoric used at festivals, the Olympic games, state visits and other formal events like openings, closings, anniversaries as well as at births, deaths, or marriages. Its major subject is praise and blame, according to Aristotle in the limited space he provides for it in the Art of Rhetoric (Freese translation).

I ran into it in an article about Scrapbooks (thanks Adriana).  I never had seen that word and it didn't exactly fit into the article either.  But it occurs to me that was the kind of speaking that Maier Zunder did.  He spoke at occasions, private or public, in English or German.  He made remarks, he acted as master of ceremonies.

I suspect he made it look easy.  Certainly he encouraged it as he did it throughout his adult life.  Some of the speeches were quoted in the paper.

Part of his confidence and agency;; he never shirked from giving his opinion but he never sought or dominated the limelight.

Picture isn't Maier Zunder, but John F. Kennedy (just in case  50 years ago, some people didn't recognize his picture)  Don't know the occasion.