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...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...
...ritual is performed at the wedding altar when Heather marries a man who turns out to be a homosexual. Rachel notices him wearing lipstick and eyeshadow in a local wine bar, and the reader is left to wonder how bovine the bride must be to have been led into this situation. The union lasts longer than one might expect, though once free, Heather heads off to Venice, where she promptly becomes a novelistic cliche: the Englishwoman who falls in love with an Italian...
...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...
...campaign proceeds in a dreamy weightlessness. Multiple images of multiple candidates float through the night air -- the bright auditorium, the shiny "hopefuls." The audience almost unconsciously makes a ritual calculation. They do not judge the men on the issues, really, so much as on the unarticulated question of gravitas. Which of the candidates has the weight, the size, the something, to become President...