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Immediately, Britain's animal partisans rose in outrage, and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals protested the "ritual slaughter." Comedian Spike Milligan argued, in all seriousness, for laws to protect defenseless fish. Finally the Arts Council of Great Britain and the R.S.P.C.A. worked out a compromise: the feast would go on, but the fish would not be killed in public. Americans who missed the fish show could catch another Harrison exhibit this week in La Jolla. Called La Jolla Promenade, it displays snails being nibbled by white ducks. Whatever the ducks leave will be served...
...Ritual observances are important, says Riskin, not only because they are God-given, but because "they fulfill our transcendental needs. Our lives require an element of poetry. Moments of the past and of the future become part of us." Above all, Rabbi Riskin defends the "divine rhythm" of the Sabbath and the festivals as welcome glimpses of eternity in a maddeningly busy world. He himself is active in causes ranging from prison visits to rallies for Soviet Jews, but the Sabbath is a day that bears no interruption beyond its rituals. As Riskin sees it, "the Sabbath needs structure...
...Craney Crow" Dr. John invites the listener to take part in a ritual which involves a call and response pattern punctuated by the excellent slide guitar work of Eric Clapton. As the Reverend Dr. John and his congregation are involved in wailing, "Chick-a-ma, Chick-a-ma, Chick-a-ma, Chick-a-ma Craney Crow," Clapton is busy accenting and amplifying the anagogical aura of the song with restrained yet amazingly powerful guitar lines. "Craney Crow" is Dr. John and his followers at their musical and mystical best...
Clashes between Japanese students and police have long had the ritual quality of a classic No play. First would come the students, helmeted and frequently masked with towels. From under a forest of red banners, they would let go a barrage of stones for a salutation. The police, brandishing nightsticks, would retaliate with exploding tear-gas charges. Even in the most impassioned confrontations, however, the actors on both sides rigidly adhered to an unwritten law: no killing...
...writers assume the proportions of brutal historical forces. Significant blows are struck. White buries his weapon in black's brain. Black directs a castrating swipe at white's sexuality. Malamud himself brings the curtain down with the brooding thought that at the moment of ritual bloodletting each felt the anguish of the other...