Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...already been produced at Yale. Like Joe Turner, it marries a naturalistic slice of life with mystic imagery. Set in 1936, it portrays a clan divided between struggling toward independence in the rural South and seeking a new life in the urban North, and it ends with a ritual exorcism. In a sense, all Wilson's plays are exorcisms, doomed but determined attempts to drive out the demons of memory. Says he: "The stigma of slavery is powerful. A few years ago, I went to a Passover service, and the first words were 'We were slaves in the land...
...father and me, the Indians are a language. They are a secret ritual by which we renew our heritage, our connection to each other. The Indians are our cause. Even if the cause is lost...
...Harvard will be making its traditional trip to Myrtle Beach, S.C. It is a tradtional spring break ritual; many other softball teams travel down at the same time for spring training. The trip will be good preparation for the Crimson's opening doubleheader on April 2 against Vermont...
...were to venture down to Newell Boathouse these mid-March Jays, you'd find Harvard's oarsmen less concerned with national titles than with destroying teammates in that fearsome spring ritual known as seat-racing. But once heavyweight coach Harry Parker chooses his eight, you can bet the boathouse mortgage that the Crimson will be among the fastest crews on the river...
...even as he bathed in a gusher of success sweeter than any he enjoyed 30 years ago in the oil business, George Herbert Walker Bush showed some of the symptoms of doubt and caution that festoon his political record. On primary night and the morning after, he avoided the ritual TV interviews. No sense in risking a gaffe, his advisers reasoned. In the privacy of his Houstonian Hotel suite, Bush impressed one aide, Peter Teeley, as oddly subdued. Bush seemed burdened with the realization that the nomination was at hand, that a new and even more critical phase was imminent...