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Baseball is obviously the best dominant metaphor for a book of this kind. It's got everything: pioneer individualism and a territorial imperative much more basic than football's corporate effort; a hockey, circus atmosphere peculiar to the American brand of mass hysteria; a dying smell about it; a system for making heroes in the center spotlight; an evangelical twist. It's got politics and it's got religion...
...pioneer among the American "film-as-art"-ists, Brakhage's goal is to make films which will maintain lasting value and sustain an infinite number of screenings. As such his medium is hardly the mass-age: Joyce and Picasso imply Brakhage far more directly than do Warner Bros. or Warhol. In fact, Brakhage's relationship to the tidal wave of free-form image-ination films is strikingly similar to Picasso's to cubism...
...Founding of Petach Tikva (Gate of Hope), a pioneer village of Jewish immigrants from Russia...
...Indian Jesuits still take their cue from the adaptability of the pioneer missionary, Father Roberto de Nobili, who adopted the ascetic life of the Hindu holy men shortly after he came to India in 1605. The Jesuits reflect the broad spectrum of the subcontinent's culture. At Poona, for instance, a group of De Nobili Jesuits are experimenting with an Indianized version of the Mass that incorporates Indian serving dishes, Indian music, language, and postures of prayer. Father Matthew Lederle, a German-born Jesuit who is now an Indian citizen, directs the serene modern center of Sneha Sadan...
...feeling that the fuming Pauline Kael is touched at bottom by nostalgia--she still doesn't sound jaded. I picture a middle to late-middle-aged lady with a rather racy past behind her--first a movie pioneer, then a movie regular, now settling into her movie watching position as if keeping faith with a bad habit she deserves. She is caught right up in the screen, wrapped up in it, when suddenly it stumbles. Something smells crooked, a bit dirty. She hasn't asked for much, but when she gets less dressed up as more she sets her instincts...