Word: rite
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BEAUTY of life, its ineffable yearnings, have their corollary. Mizoguchi is too much in love with his world to treat it harshly--in his film at least--and Yukio Mishima's Rite of Love and Death (1965), showing with it this Friday, is similarly made within assumptions rather than about them. But Rite has none of the warmth of Mizoguchi: love is sublime and passionate rather than tender, death is ordained and noble rather than resented and mesay. Mercifully, considering its intensity, Rite lasts only 25 minutes. It portrays the double suicide of a young lieutenant and his wife...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, conducted by James Yannatos, will be on the Loeb mainstage opening night. Rumor had it that the Orchestra would be doing "Peter and the Wolf" narrated by President Bok, but that tidbit seems to have died a quiet death. Their program fittingly enough includes Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring." The Bach Society Orchestra has promised its full cooperation in a concert in Lowell House Dining Room, ending its season with Bach's "Second Brandenburg Concerto...
...years, the opening of the major league baseball season has been as much an American rite of spring as viewing the cherry blossoms in Washington. To sentimentalists, the first crack of bat against ball is a sweet sound heard across the nation. To every President since William Howard Taft, opening day has also meant a chance to toss out the first ball and make a hit with the fans. But this year's scheduled opening came and went last week with no hits, no runs, no President,* and one called strike...
...Chinese youths recently resulted in two homicides. In Castle Hill, a lower middle-class neighborhood in the East Bronx, teachers at Adlai Stevenson High School say that a gang of black girls called the Black Persuaders is one reason for a rash of student transfers. The Persuaders' initiation rite requires the new member to beat up a white girl...
Died. Eugéne Cardinal Tisserant, 87, Roman Catholic scholar and longtime prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Churches, which supervises the affairs of Eastern Rite Roman Catholics; of a heart attack; in Albano, Italy. An accomplished paleographer (specialist in ancient writing), Tisserant was until last year administrator of the Vatican library, which he modernized into one of the best equipped in all Europe. An important figure in the ecumenical movement to bring the Greek and Roman branches of the church into closer harmony, he was considered a possible papal candidate after the death of Pius...