Word: rite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Overeducated fans turn baseball into "text." One historian sees the game as an American fertility rite. A professor of English at the University of Rochester, George Grella, has written that "while (baseball) radiates a spiritual transcendence, it also expresses a parallel paradoxical quality of sadness...it instructs us in two crucial American concepts, the loneliness of space and the sadness of time...
Gadgets that buzz and stuff that explodes, LEDs that twinkle and digital commodes. Big piles of wire and pickled her-rings, These are a few of my fav-o-rite things...
...band of shirtless male ballet dancers interrupted the second largest class at Harvard yesterday by performing an excerpt from Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring in what was most likely a final club initiation prank...
...Professor of Music Thomas F. Kelly discussed a movement that was playing in Literature and Arts B-51, "First Nights," six to eight students ran onstage with slogans such as "Nijinsky Lives" painted on their chests, a reference to Vaslav Nijinsky, the choreographer of the original Rite of Spring...
After performing what Kelly called "a sort of Cliff-Notes version of The Rite of Spring, complete with sacrificial virgin," the students ran out of Sanders Theatre accompanied by applause and cheers from the class...