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Television's habit of cutting away at will from the podium began, with far more justification, in the days when conventions were a gaudy and contentious rite where delegates really debated and decided. Television boasted of the civic responsibility of its gavel-to-gavel coverage, but even then it was contrasting the shouting orator and the snoozing delegate or chasing politicians down hotel corridors, arguing that this was where the real news was being made. It was also where journalistic reputations were being made, which is why in its own interest each network lavished so much money on coverage...
...that odd American mixture of patriotic fervor and bleary ease, of sunburn and a deeper stirring. The Founders adopted the Declaration of Independence in July and not in February (imagine sending fireworks up in a snowstorm), and so the national birthday is both the nation's most powerful rite of communal identity and merely the lazy and unreflective beginning of high summer...
...Arnold M. Hiatt '48, chairman and chief executive officer of the Stride Rite Corporation, a shoe manufacturer...
Though the Pope ordains hundreds of priests each year, last week's ceremony was a rite of special significance: 30 of the new priests will serve exclusively within the movement called Opus Dei. This is the third spring in a row that Pope John Paul has so honored the organization, a zealously orthodox network of 74,000 lay Catholics and 1,200 priests spread across 40 nations. Since its founding in 1928, Opus Dei (Latin for Work of God) has become one of the most influential, controversial and mysterious movements in Roman Catholicism...
...helped nurture such authors as Beth Henley and Marsha Norman from early promise to mature achievement. The festival-nine full-length plays in three days, all produced by Jon Tory's Actors Theater of Louisville-continues to solidify its reputation as the theater's most exhilarating rite of spring...