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Winthrop House sewed up the touch football championship yesterday by beating Quincy, 33-19, and Dudley, 53-38, in a chaotic doubleheader...
...Chaotic-or even anarchic-as that answer may seem, it is the base of U.S. patriotism. At the end of the 18th century, nothing was more quixotic than trying to nationalize 13 hostile colonies, assorted religious sects, and 2,500,000 individualists. The colonists were so unimpressed by the Revolution that one-third of them sided with Britain. At Valley Forge, George Washington wrote that patriotic idealism could not inspire his ragged, ill-trained army, that it must be toughened by "a prospect of interest or some reward." He meant cash. Only well after victory did the shaky American nation...
When they came to power in October 1917, many of the Bolsheviks seriously doubted that they could govern the vast, chaotic land of Russia by themselves. "We can't hold out!" cried one of the prominent leaders. Lev Kamenev. Lenin himself hoped at first that the October Revolution would last as long as the Paris Commune of 1871 -71 days-to serve as a warning to capitalism. "It is most surprising," he later said, "that there was no one there to kick us out immediately." This week, to mark the 50 years that have passed since that shaky start...
...taps the adrenal flow of anxiety and guilt that contemporary audiences bring into the theater with them. Mirrored in his comedies of terror, playgoers can see the resurgence of their own childlike fears, sense their own sadomasochistic impulses, detect the image of themselves as pawns of chance in a chaotic and absurd cosmos...
...find themselves curiously moved by his powerful geometry delights Smith. "My own personal feeling," he says, "is that all my sculpture is on the edge of dreams. They come close to the unconscious in spite of their geometry. On one level, my work has clarity. On another, it is chaotic and imagined." The Snake Is Out, for example, coils for 24 ft. along the ground in back of Lincoln Center, bulging in its black skin like some prehistoric reptile. It propels the viewer to circle it and savor its tetrahedrons and octahedrons swelling and flowing. Yet the title, piling allegory...