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...sanctuary upstairs, the show went on. At one end, three nude young people splashed happily in a kiddies' plastic wading pool. At the other end, Actor Kevin O'Connor (Tom Paine) performed the bathtub scene from Sam Shepard's play Chicago, a scene of despair and rebirth. At a sink, two housewives talked about which detergent was purest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Baptism by Theater | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

...Rebirth Theme. Then the action subsided, the bathers put on modest white gowns and the central event came into focus: the baptism of three new members of the congregation-a Jewish student in his 20s, a young woman dancer and a three-year-old black-and-Puerto Rican boy adopted by a white family. As incense billowed up toward the rafters, the Rev. Eugene Monick, 42, intoned: "Do you renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world . . . and the sinful desires of the flesh . . . ?" Then he cupped water onto the forehead of each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Baptism by Theater | 1/3/1972 | See Source »

John Finley's Hum 3 doubled its enrollment this year. The rebirth of interest in the humanities at Harvard applies to the other performing arts as well. Last Friday 1300 people filled Sanders Theatre for a midnight concert by the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Despite the turning away of 200 people, the aisles were so crowded that fire officials nearly cancelled the performance...

Author: By Kenneth Hoffman, | Title: Midnight at Sanders With the HRO | 12/15/1971 | See Source »

...through the gates, portals, sections, rows and seats of college football memorabilia. After having dealt with the early gridiron heroes and glamor boys in former quizzes, this autumn the sports cube staff focuses on the '50's and '60's, when fans witnessed the rise and fall and then rebirth of a strategy called platoon football...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: An Era to Remember--'50s and '60s Football | 10/21/1971 | See Source »

...them, the lovers in a final grand romantic gesture persuaded an officer to marry them. After they were captured by the Russians, Hilde escaped at the insistence of her "husband" (he survived, but she never saw him again) and arrived in Berlin just in time to assist at the rebirth of the German theater. The costumes were so makeshift they fell off on the stage, the actors so ill the director had to call an intermission for vomiting. Hilde then starred in The Murderers Are Among Us, Germany's first postwar film, and the same recklessness that had hurled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Quality of Her Truth | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

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