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...Christmas buying season started officially last week, with millions of shoppers surging through department-store aisles on the Friday after Thanksgiving. In New York City, the ritual began as it has for the past 50 years, with the balloons, floats and marching bands of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Without Dino the Dinosaur (the 20-ft.-tall balloon was retired after 13 years and sent back to maker Goodyear), the parade moved, as always, down Central Park West, ending at Macy's flagship Herald Square store on 34th Street...
Hasler disputes the contention that most Vatican I bishops went to Rome seeking the infallibility decree. Instead, he asserts, Pius and the bishops supporting him outmaneuvered opponents of infallibility -without ever answering their historical arguments against it-so effectively that the council "degenerated into a ritual, mock discussion." Hasler provides new details on just how the outwardly jovial, accommodating "Pio Nono" plotted to get his infallibility decree...
...gaucho stories: spare, Kiplingesque tales of hard drinking and knife fights in provincial Argentina, where, he says, there is no small town "that isn't exactly like all the others - even to the point of thinking itself different." Such stories of pure action follow a ritual and rhythm - like simple milongas and tangos - that allow the author to dance briefly from the library stacks where he has spent most of his years. And where he truly belongs. For it is from the life of books that he discovered how to fit elegantly rigged philosophical models into the sparkling confines...
...ritual seldom varies. On Sunday mornings in Rome's Cassia district, a slender middle-aged man accompanies his wife and son as far as the steps of the modern stone-and-glass Santa Chiara Church. He watches them enter and returns when Mass is over to accompany them home. In a country where husbands often leave churchgoing to their women, the scene is not unusual-except for one thing. The man is Enrico Berlinguer, secretary-general of Italy's Communist Party and an atheist who nonetheless is willing to accommodate the steadfast faith of his wife Letizia...
Then, following a ritual as intricate as an Aztec sacrificial rite -and only slightly less colorful -CBS Chairman William Paley met with his top aides. At "Black Rock," CBS'S somber, granite headquarters on Manhattan's Sixth Avenue, the troops were told to expect an announcement of executive changes at 3:30 p.m. At 3:30 they were told to wait until 4 -coincidentally when the stock market closed and it would be too late for investors to be react...