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Clowning as an aid to holy ritual and service...
...open another original musical, Zapata, based on the life of the Mexican revolutionary. Any resemblance to the lucrative career of Evita has probably not gone unnoticed. "We are producing shows for the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, and not for New York," Price says in a well-learned ritual. "But," he adds candidly, "we always hope...
...America, Carter described the Democratic promised land only in vague?or at times excessively technical ?platitudes. Not even the delegates who had nominated him the night before, or the Carter supporters who packed the hall, appeared really moved. Their cheers on occasion seemed merely dutiful?a not unpleasant ritual diligently performed. At other times, it was his fighting spirit that seemed to rouse them, not his words...
...acceptance speech, he appeared almost to plead for his rival's backing. Kennedy responded with what seemed a notable lack of charity. Though he refrained from criticizing the President, his formal endorsement was brief ("I will support and work for the re-election of President Carter"), his ritual appearance with Carter on the rostrum after the acceptance speech Thursday night was perfunctory ?even strained?and his expression on that traditionally happy occasion was reserved and aloof...
...many reasons, that may be just as well. Poetry that labors as power's mythmaking flunky is depressing and possibly dangerous. Still, a ritual like the American presidential campaign might be more fun, and certainly more preposterous, with a ceremonial conversion into verse. What if Americans followed the British example, if they had a laureate to bang out clerihews and odes-a little something to mark a President's ten-point jump in the polls, a sonnet for renomination...