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...past, the International Automobile Show in New York City's mammoth Coliseum has been an annual rite of spring for eager dealers and motorists. This year's show, which ends this week, was singularly different. The cars were there-and so were environmentalists...
...young Stravinsky's artistic calling card was a bombshell: The Rite of Spring, a sophisticated evocation of primitive myths and energies completed in 1913. Conductor Pierre Monteux recalled that when he first heard the composer run through it on the piano, bobbing up and down to accentuate its jagged rhythms, "I was convinced that he was raving mad." Later, when the work had its Paris première at the Theatre des Champs Elysées, many members of the audience thought so too. They erupted in perhaps the most notorious riot of music history, booing, fighting one another...
...Repeats. Polytonal, polymodal, polyrhythmic, The Rite took some getting used to. It did not so much reject conventional harmony, as did the twelve-tone works of Arnold Schoenberg. Rather it brought contrasting tonalities crashing dangerously into one another. With its unexpected clustered stresses and pile-driving climaxes, it raised rhythm to an unprecedented preeminence. Jarring the 20th century out of its lingering romanticism, it was more than "the cornerstone of modern music," as Pierre Boulez calls it. It was one of those works, like Joyce's Ulysses and Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, that announced...
There's another rite of Spring here at fair Harvard, one which all students can participate in vicariously if not in fact. It's called crew, and each Spring the he-men amongst us are out on the sparkling Charles in their sleek craft pulling valiantly to preserve the glory of Harvard in the face of competition from other schools...
...Nowadays young people develop more quickly than they did in my day," says the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 83, the former Archbishop of Canterbury. In a new book, Touching on Christian Truth, Dr. Fisher proposes to help the young avoid the sin of fornication by reviving the ancient rite of betrothal. "It would have to take place with the full consent of the two families," he wrote. "It would, in fact, be a sacramental act, made, as indeed marriage itself is, essentially by the two persons themselves. After that, sexual intercourse between them would not be regarded...