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...truism of Harvard that when spring comes, protesters emerge from their winter hibernations to fill the Yard with the sounds of opposition. And for the past 17 years, supporters of a clerical workers union have joined the spring ritual in their efforts to gain administrative recognition...
...fitting that during Inauguration week, the stock market should have recovered nearly to its level of Black Monday, the day of the 1987 crash. Fitting, because an Inauguration is more than just a transfer of power. It is a ritual re-enactment of the resilience, the suppleness of American life...
...controlled Congress. Each side is intent on holding the other responsible for the painful and unpopular combination of program cuts and new revenues that will be needed to reduce the projected deficit of $127 billion to the $100 billion mandated under the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law. In a ritual game of budgetary chicken, neither side wants to offer the first specific ideas for cuts. Says a senior Bush transition official: "Cutting people's pet programs is a terribly negative way to start your Administration. We plan to postpone that as long as possible and let Congress clean...
...what he thought represented the nation's most pressing dilemma: a possible "eradication of the American memory that could result ultimately, in an erosion of the American spirit." And he offered a solution: Americans ought to pay "more attention to American history and [put] a greater emphasis on civic ritual...
...headlines, Hall has scrupulously avoided the common error of toning down Williams' expressionistic excess into unsuitable realism. In the first scene, the lighting changes with every few sentences of dialogue, to underscore shifts in mood and to cue the audience that it has entered a realm of symbol and ritual. Pickup trucks outside a storefront sound as loud as jets. A half-demented Southern belle wears makeup reminiscent of a clown...