Word: re-enactment
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Saturday--1 p.m.--Small ships, like those the original settlers would have used, will said up the Charles to re-enact the city's founding. A procession to Winthrop Square for speeches and ceremonies will follow. People to watch include Gov. Edward J. King, Lt. Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill III (incidentally, Gov. John Winthrop used to quarrel with his lieutenant, Deputy Governor Dudley) and Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 who will speak on current issues in local government...
...like Kennedy, he is unlikely to escape frustration: Higgins is hopelessly hooked on the local baseball team. "The Red Sox are a religion," he concludes. "Every year we re-enact the agony and the temptation in the Garden. Baseball child's play? Hell, up here in Boston it's a passion play...
...interest is not in progress or advancement but in recapitulation. The letters are governed by a "Deeper Pattern"; the letter writers slowly merge in the conviction that they are living the first part of their lives for a second time or, as one writes, that "biography like history may re-enact itself as farce." Stasis reigns, history is not Viconian cycles or Yeatsian gyres but the thumbscrew. On this subject, the correspondents begin to correspond: "The past is a holding tank from which time's wastes recirculate . . . History really is that bird you [Barth] mention somewhere, who flies...
William Alfred, speaking on "Beckett's Waiting for Godot and After", is reportedly one of the nicest professors around, and for the English Department, this says a lot. The topic is rather interesting, too, although most people will probably re-enact the end of Godot: "Let's go. (They do not move...
Says one congressional leader: "They are in a mood to do something, and they don't give a damn what it is. If they thought the Lord's Prayer dealt with energy, they would probably re-enact it. If they thought it did not apply to energy, they would probably oppose...