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...smart, we're talented, and doggone it, people like us (or at least we like ourselves). But every so often we members of the Harvard community feel the need to engage in a public confessional ritual. To say, in effect, that reports of our superiority have been greatly exaggerated...
...told his attorney he was innocent and believed he was being persecuted for his religious beliefs. Precht says his client has requested a copy of the Koran, a watch so he can pray at the proper times and a change in his feeding schedule so that he can observe ritual daytime fasting for Ramadan. Salameh also asked the lawyer to contact his father, who is still in Jordan...
...protagonist is Edward Damson (Michael Pennington), a famous playwright for whom the theater is a religion and its most sacred ritual the revenge- murder that he sees at the heart of Greek tragedy. Edward has a fanatical faith in the cleansing purity of blood vengeance. His wife Helen (Judi Dench), who holds deeply to a liberal belief in fairness and mercy, is his muse and counterbalance -- playing Athena, goddess of reason, to his Perseus, the mythological hero who killed the monstrous Gorgon. The play hinges on the passionate dialectic between these two, which turns ominous when it leaves the realm...
...transfixed as I watched this annual ritual, and in an instant, I knew Winthrop was the Dream House...
...much more curious about other cultures -- particularly those of Latin America -- than it would be 25 years later. Lam had a strong common interest with American painters who became his friends, such as Arshile Gorky, Jackson Pollock and Robert Motherwell: namely a fascination with totemism and the imagery of ritual...