Word: rite
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...credit of any individual writer or performer, but more because of all the Pudding shows that have gone before and this one's similarity to them. It need not be seen as itself because the eyes can glaze over and let it pass as a familiar spring rite. It affirms things as they have been since 1824 or some such year, which around Harvard is pretty satisfying. But are things really the same? Do we want them...
...Life as a Dog, teaches that pubescence is a messy uphill battle. And now two French films arrive to clinch the argument that in Europe, childhood is a daunting entrance exam for premature adulthood. Their plot is archetypal: a boy is sent away from home for a wrenching rite of passage. In Jean-Loup Hubert's The Grand Highway, the lad learns conventional wisdom, and the film evokes familiar smiles and tears. In Louis Malle's Au Revoir les Enfants, the Nazi occupation of France triggers a boy's crisis of conscience. Malle's movie, sure to be nominated...
...Those who hailed the deaf Beethoven at the Ninth Symphony's unveiling, who lined the streets of Milan for Verdi's funeral, who wept as the dying Brahms took a final public bow at a performance of his Fourth Symphony, who rioted at the debut of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring were no more sophisticated than today's listeners. It is simply that no one told them they were listening to classical music. What they experienced was not the passive appreciation of a dead art but love and wonder at its terrible, living beauty...
With only 21 days left until Christmas and even fewer until the annual rite of Secret Santa-ing starts, students are prowling the Square for out-of-the-ordinary gift ideas. But most students' ideas are just too prosaic, so here are some ideas for people who are tired of the routine Hershey kisses and reindeer pins, brought to you by a source of higher knowledge...
...ancient Hindu rite of suttee, requiring a woman to immolate herself on the funeral pyre of her husband, was abolished in British India in 1829. But early this month, when her young husband died suddenly of gastroenteritis, Roop Kanwar, 18, a bride of just eight months, declared her intention to revive the grim custom. By that afternoon thousands of people had gathered to witness her immolation. After taking a ritual bath, the woman dressed once more in her bright red bridal finery. Sitting atop the funeral pyre with her husband's corpse, his head on her lap, she asked...