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Reading that years ago, I caught a glimpse of a world where the normal barriers of propriety, temperance, and privacy are transcended in a communal frenzy, where people aren't afraid to let their pants down. So, a few summers back, finding myself in Spain in July, I headed for Pamplona to pay my respects to San Fermin and his Dionysian worshippers. After a sleepless all-night train ride, crushed into a stuffy corridor crammed with Spaniards on their way to Pamplona, I arrived on the first day of the fiesta. The city was jammed and the wine had already...
...that need an athlete to lift them to a wooden Ogoni mask from Nigeria, with its curving protrusion of lips like a bird's beak, too small to fit a human head. Thompson has included films showing how these personifications of spirit and moral forces are used in communal dances: Gaa Wree-Wre, for instance, the Dan personification of "ideal justice," with its white-rimmed eyes, worn in a dance characterized by ponderous walking and sitting...
Martin H. Peretz, master of South House, said the addition of suites will help South House better accommodate students who have been asked to live in the Quad Houses against their will in recent years and who desire an alternative to the single-bedroom, communal-bathroom lifestyle in the Quad dormitories...
...villages; they ran a printing press and cultivated their rich farm land. The brothers of Taizé took no formal vows, but pledged themselves to celibacy, community of goods (both property and talents), and "acceptance of authority." They dressed plainly, as laymen, donning their white wool robes only for communal worship. The community grew modestly, selecting only a few of the many who sought to join...
...Some join group discussions, especially concerning ways of living a Christian life in modern society. Others combine half-days of farm work with periods of silent contemplation; still others make more structured individual retreats under the guidance of one of the brothers. But the key element is their roughhewn communal life. "Here words and actions come together," says a French girl named Marie-Joseph. "Here we see what it is like to live and work and discuss and play together, what it is like to form a community. Many young people are not religious because they do not understand that...