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...Neill was also invited to take part in another congressional rite reserved for the elite-the late-night poker games involving some of the top leaders on the Hill. O'Neill more than held his own; he had helped earn his way through Boston College by playing poker. In one night of good hands, recalls O'Neill, a man could win $400. "Nobody ever got hurt," says O'Neill...
LOWELL HOUSE JCR: Recital for Two Pianos. Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, Saint-Saens: Scherzp, Op. 87, Brahms: Haydn Variations, Op. 56b, Jan. 20 at 3, free...
...truth" of a doctrine should not be determined by how well it sticks to orthodoxy or past formulations. The question should be, does this teaching or rite lock people in stupefying bondage? Or does it contribute "to the fuller consciousness, the joy, the maturation and the emancipation...
Unfortunately, the emotionless rite has a permanently damaging effect on Steve's (and Bullins's) attitude towards women. Women are seen as sexual objects and survival of the male ego becomes dependent on crushing the female's. "You sonna bitch," Velma, the lonely housewife Steve seduces and mistreats in The Duplex, curses. "You're a sonna bitch," the first black woman he rapes in The Reluctant Rapist cries out as he defiles her. But instead of being offended by the epithets, he wears them boldly as though they were testimonials to his manliness. For Bullins the only law that operates...
...just happened to be in the Square when three nude Pi Etas dashed through in their initiation rite. Rule felt gypped, conceding, "You know, this is an interesting place. But it's strange. Very strange...