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During my half hour interview with him, Rosenthal stayed accessible to his staff, never closing the office door. In his office there is a long wooden table surrounded by chairs, where in a daily ritual at 4 p.m., the Times's editors present the news to their boss...
What's in a flag? To George Balanchine, who is as symbol-minded as the next choreographer, a flag stands for the ritualistic, pride-bearing side of a nation. How and why the repetitious pace of ritual should be transformed into dance are questions that Balanchine alone seems able to answer. In Stars and Stripes (1958), he made a brilliant humoresque out of close-order and other U.S. military drills. In his latest creation, the hour-long Union Jack, he has come up with a visually stunning, three-part divertissement that masses the clans, changes the guard and salutes...
...member tribe, which is spread out over 75,000 square miles in southern Venezuela and northern Brazil. Since then, Chagnon, now a Penn State professor, has spent four years among the Yãnomamõ, learning the language and chronicling a culture built around persistent aggression-browbeating, goading, ritual displays of ferocity, fighting and constant warfare. One village he visited conducted 25 wars in 19 months against neighboring villages, and a quarter of all adult Yãnomamõ males die in battle...
...Odori Festival of Japan; A dazzling repertory of traditional devil dances, temple dances, dragon dances and displays of ritual combat on tour with 40 dancers as Japan's offering to the bicentennial. May 3 - 4 at 8 p.m. at the Berklee Performance Center, corner of Mass. Ave. and Boylston Street. For tickets call...
...fought among themselves or took each others' heads, but they did suspect each other of witchcraft and other antisocial behavior. The hostility of the outside world maintained the solidarity of the Berawan community and gave rise to their own sense of identity, their feelings of superiority and their idiosyncratic ritual...