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...stadium less compelling. No such paltry consideration-not even the October climax of big-league baseball-distracts a very special species of spectator. He is the tailgater, a participant in an event that is part block party, part fraternity beer bust, part Shriners' parade and all Middle-American ritual...
Mishima sealed this literary package with his ritual suicide in 1970, when he was only 45. Unlike, say, Ernest Hemingway, who shot himself at 61 in apparent despair over a deteriorating mind, Mishima killed himself in what seemed a gesture of robust if wasteful heroism, the ultimate act of self-control. Since his death was so theatrically deliberate, the temptation is strong to judge the tetralogy as an artistic and philosophical suicide note to the world. The note is now three-quarters completed for English-language readers. It is fascinating and ambitious, but the final message (and literary value...
Still, the sense of martial art is conveyed; in its limited way, television has made the game so rich - in every sense of the word - that its players portray villains, heroes and fools all in the same afternoon. Through TV, the sport has become a high ritual of bloodletting. It is also, as always, a morganatic wedding of cold mathematics and glorious physical achievement. It is, as well, a confused and pointless scramble across 100 yards of meaningless turf...
...junta also banned the use of the term compañero, or comrade, which had been the ritual greeting of Allende's supporters. Flying squads of painters, meanwhile, ranged across Santiago to cleanse political slogans and provocative graffiti off the city's walls. The Socialist and Communist parties were outlawed...
...what has become an all too standard ritual, the consumer price report showed that food prices accounted for most of the overall rise, reflecting higher costs for a variety of goods, including meat, fish, eggs, bread and milk. Echoing Administration spokesmen who sought to talk down the importance of the wholesale price report for August two weeks earlier, Gary Seevers, a member of Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, pointed out that farm-level prices for some food commodities have substantially declined since August. But Dunlop was not having any of that. "I'm very much concerned with...