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...past 23 years, visits to Manhattan by London's Royal Ballet have become a springtime ritual. In most cases, the company's programming has become ritualistic too: 19th century warhorses like Swan Lake and Giselle, plus a generous dash of contemporary works like The Dream and The Two Pigeons by the Royal's longtime director Sir Frederick Ashton...
...mildly pointless ritual underscored old questions: Can international law have any real value in limiting armed conflict? Do the complex doctrines of law simply disguise the fact that might makes right? Could the doctrines work if they were generally observed-or enforced...
Paris' emotions are much possessed by death. From his early Buchenwald illustrations to his latest environments, Paris remains a poet of ritual and mortality: he has even been known to bury an invisible sculpture sealed in a black coffin as part of a happening, and one large environmental piece at Berkeley, Pantomima Illuma (1966), is a kind of tomb, a black chamber with soft walls and eerie pencils of light on ambiguous, fleshy bits of sculpture. Paris' work is that of a rich and disordered temperament, which manages to be both heavily serious and slightly glib...
...quite placid up to this point begin to show signs of rage and aggression." This new behavior is severely punished, however, so that the children learn to control their anger. As a result, Abron adults are rarely aggressive toward other people. Instead they direct their aggression in fantasy and ritual at imaginary beings, called deresgog, or witches...
Last weekend the Yale team tried to copy this ritual and failed miserably. After that the Elis never recovered from the psychological impact of this initial defeat, and lost both ends of the doubleheader...