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...chartreuse goat-image superimposed on a purple pentagram. "To night there is one among us elected to the priesthood of Mendes," intones one of the men. "Satan, thou hast seen fit to charge Warlock Shai with thy priesthood on earth ... the deification of the human race." Reciting an ordination rite first in Latin and then in English, the speaker taps a second man on each shoulder with a sword. Someone pours flash powder on the sterno altar flame and whoosh! Fire leaps toward the ceiling...
...liberals hoped that bishops might once more be elected, as they were in ancient Christianity, by the "people of God" they would be serving -lay as well as clerical. This week, after four years of Vatican studies, surveys and consultations, a new set of rules for naming Latin Rite bishops goes into effect. They by no means bring sweeping democratic reform...
Coming to the big city is a kind of initiation rite into the fraternity of adulthood. In a young man's imagination, the metropolis is an enticingly profane glade of Babylonian delights. In reality, the tyro may face a jungle ordeal in which he is savaged by the mightiest beast, the city itself...
...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...