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...game follows the spirit if not the rules of the old tribal pastime. Called lacrosse by French missionaries because the curved hickory sticks reminded them of a bishop's crosier, the game as played by Iroquois braves or Blue Jay undergrads is more riot than religious rite. Civilization and 300 years have brought such refinements as helmets and shoulder pads. Even so, the basic game plan still holds that the next best thing to scoring a goal is ad ministering a crunching body check. Johns Hopkins Coach Bob Scott, a former Army ranger, says that football has its more...
...start off, they give you The Soldier's Tale. Now we all know that only in The Rite of Spring did Stravinsky truly succeed in his lifelong quest for a musical equivalent of Last Tango in Paris. But it seems to me that The Soldier's Tale comes much closer to bringing music into the twentieth century we know today, the century in which the common people--in the poems of Ezra Pound as well as the jungles of Indochina -- insist on asserting their rightful sway...
...American auto has long enjoyed a not-so-subtle sanctity all its own. The vinyl and chrome interiors have become mobile family chapels for communing with nature and each other; the weekend car wash has become a purification rite, the trade-in for a newer model a form of spiritual renewal and reaffirmation. Now the auto's explicit religious overtones and artifacts have spilled over from the dashboard, where they have long been visual obstructions, to the bumper, where they constitute eyestoppers if not public affronts. The religious bumper sticker has recently become a profitable business. An estimated...
...conform ring true. What is incredible about an expression of the Prometheus myth today is the concept of a savior of mankind. About the Titan's successful defiance of tyranny the play revolves; upon the distance of this idea from our own experience, the production sinks into a dramatic rite...
...this season of chill and exasperation, Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber arrived in Parliament last week to perform that ancient British rite of spring, the presentation of the annual budget. The document that he produced from the traditional red leather box was a curious one. Barber himself described it as "broadly neutral," and it was a sort of plea for economic truce. Most noticeably, it dispensed an assortment of minor gifts for practically everybody. Unemployment and sickness benefits were raised by $2.46 a week and pensions by $3.94 (at a total cost of $1.4 billion). Taxes on children...