Word: rituals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question. Not even the New Left surpasses for depth or length his attacks on the wasteful process of a Ph.D., the petrified curriculum, and the shabby teaching which disfigure higher education. For the most part, he suggests, the student's presence in school has no other purpose than a ritual one. The teaching university has become the training university, and, in its attempt to be modern, has lost the cohesion of a real institution. Bureaucracy and angling for promotion has replaced amiable chaos and ivy-covered isolation of the good old days...
Still--and this is what keeps the ritual of the road alive--productions can be saved, or almost saved, on the road. An "almost saved" show is one that looks like an embarrassing flop on the road, but, through revisions, opens in New York to enough praise to keep it running eight or nine months. (Examples: the Julie Harris musical Skyscraper and last season's The Happy Time...
...these set a rare ambiance for a formidable showing. The group of three graduate students who set up the show made a selection representative of Winthrop's own preferences, accentuating French drawings and Chinese jades and bronzes. There are fabulous ritual bronzes--my favorites are a big bell from the Chou dynasty and a pouring vessel with a lion's head at the front and an owl on its back...
...Preference for Metal. It was a ritual pledge, made in response to urgent requests by European bankers to help quell a new outbreak of speculation. The free-market price of gold had been creeping up for more than a month, partly because of tensions in the Middle East and partly because Kennedy inadvertently raised hopes in December that the new Administration might raise the official gold price. Mindful of Nixon's orders to avoid taking policy positions before the inaugural, Kennedy replied to a question about gold prices by saying that he would "keep all options open." Despite disclaimers...
WHAT the orange growers are all dreading, and the kids all looking forward to, is the winter ritual of smudging. Oranges are delicate parcels and need to be protected when the cold comes. Unlike hardy cranberries or pumpkins, oranges don't have their flavor improved by a nice brisk cold snap. Instead, the little cells that make up the orange all rupture when the juice inside them freezes; after the orange thaws out, the juice all runs away from the torn cells and leaves an orangey-tasting sawdust behind. Growers are understandably eager to avoid that fate for their crop...