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...farmers and laborers. Like Baptists in Western Europe and the U.S., they do not baptize infants but immerse persons who decide individually to become Christians. They enjoy biblical preaching and robust singing as much as they abhor drinking and smoking. They differ from Western Baptists by observing traditional church feast days like Trinity Sunday, the day on which President Nixon visited. More important, the All-Union Council uses district superintendents to supervise local churches and name pastors, while Baptist congregations in the West are autonomous...
Seal Meat. In a fascinating spot survey, Miss de Beauvoir reviews how the old have fared in other places, other times. For example, among the Chukchee, a Siberian fishing tribe, an elder who outlived his time was given a farewell feast of seal meat and whisky, after which his son or younger brother slipped behind and strangled him with a seal bone...
Despite the fact that each year the Tigers maul their way through the lambs on their early-season schedule and roar into town anticipating another victorious feast. Princeton has traditionally been declawed, debilitated, and defeated at the hands of superior Harvard boats. The Tigers have not won a Goldthwait Cup since 1957 and have a lot of embarassment to make up for. Since then the title has been exclusive Harvard property...
...serious problems for years, even if the invading army is pushed back. There was evidence last week of such infiltration around Saigon, Kontum and Hue. In one village south of An Loc, Communists distributed leaflets, then bought a fat pig and treated the entire village to a "Liberation Day" feast. Next morning, after the Communists left, someone reported their presence in the village, which shortly afterward was bombed, as the Communists probably expected. They thus converted one village to their side...
Occasionally the earlier, more resilient Berryman still surfaces. There is a wonderful bravura hymn to Beethoven; a hymn to a Minnesota Thanksgiving feast that ends with a hearty "Yippee"; bouquets tossed at Frost and his drinking pal Dylan Thomas, and moments of tenderness toward his wife. But the dominant tone is cold despair. One of the last poems recalls a night spent at Critic Richard Blackmur's house in Maine...