Word: pilgrims
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...author's fans. Its story moves intelligibly from episode to episode, and its characters are sufficiently self-consistent so that it is possible to tell them apart. But the old Waltari charm is not there. The hero is a Finnish boy named Michael who sails aboard a pilgrim ship for Palestine, only to be lugged off to the African slave markets by Moslem pirates. Thenceforward, he ricochets about the Ottoman Empire-from the fall of Algiers to the siege of Vienna to the campaigns in Persia-like some 16th Century Lanny Budd with a bath towel wound around...
Every Saturday, the "greatest football games in the East" flick across the stage of the Pilgrim Theatre. For eighty-five cents you can take in the whole proceedings...
Last weekend, for instance, Theatre Network Television, which promotes the broadcasts, sent over the Princeton-Navy game. The management of the Pilgrim apparently didn't have much better luck than local proprietors of stadiums in drawing a crowd for a ball game. Most of the audience, which sat sullenly in its seats nibbling popcorn, seemed to favor Princeton. A good many were Nassau expatriates doing graduate work here. Sailors attended in scattered clumps and watched the proceedings with mixed feelings. Service pride demanded that they cheer for their future officers most of the time but when things went awry...
According to athletic directors all over the country, TV is wrecking football by keeping crowds away from the playing fields. After watching the show at the Pilgrim, I think they should start looking for some less superficial reason. Watching players maul each other on a screen isn't the same as sitting in the stands. All the pageantry was out of it--the girls in plaid dresses, the band uniforms, the colors, the requests for shots from the bottle. There was little cheering and such as there was lacked gusto. I've never gone along with those who consider football...
...Mecca, this was a far more revolutionary proposal than it would have been elsewhere in the pagan world. Polytheism was at the heart of Mecca's economic and social life. If Mecca took a strong stand for a particular god, Mecca's pilgrim business would die. The practical choice for Mecca was polytheism or, if it elected monotheism, the political conquest of all Arabia and the imposition of its one-God religion. To a man, the Mec can leaders rejected Mohammed. But he persisted even after he gradually came to realize that his spiritual kingdom did not have...