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...Year's Eve (Oh, God! A year older and what have we accomplished?) the children of Myles Standish are condemned to gather with noisemakers, paper hats and lamp shades, and out of sheer embarrassment get smashed. The stocks could not hurt worse than such gross incompetence at ritual gaiety. Every New Year's Eve, Thomas Morton is avenged...
Street Scenes 1970. Visually, aurally, this documentary is acute enough to be sealed in a cornerstone. Psychologically, philosophically, it is another kind of souvenir altogether. Street Scenes could serve the next century as a unilaterally disarming record of those wretched days in May following the Kent State tragedy. After ritual footage of William Kunstler expounding on youth as savior and David Dellinger paranoiacally linking the Mafia with the Federal Government, Director Martin Scorsese zeroes in on the futile confrontations of street people and straights, hardhats and students, soldiers and peace marchers...
...books and yesterday's newspapers, a sawhorse with a Western saddle draped over it, a picture of a turn-of-the-century cowboy. Suddenly, a lecturer appears. He wears a coat. As he sheds the coat, he reveals to the audience that he is performing the eternal theatrical ritual, dropping the mask, assuming the myth, becoming the man. He pulls out a bandana and ties it around his neck. He gives his forelock a forward tug. Bowed of leg, lariat twirling, stetson arched back over his forehead and shy grin. It is Will Rogers...
Under the plan, women who wish to take the vow would do so in a simple ritual performed by a bishop. It would be a binding, permanent commitment to the virginal state, with dispensation from the decision being reserved to bishops. Lay women taking this vow will be known as "Christian virgins." Unlike nuns, they need not join a religious order, wear any special garb or be required to live in convents or special communities. Beyond maintaining their virginity, they may if they wish function as assistants in the missionary field, in line with their interests and abilities. According...
...high Vatican official, anticipating reaction to the pronouncement, admitted that few women are expected to take the vows. The ritual will probably be used mostly by those in religious orders as a way of renewing their original dedication. "This document has not been issued with the intention of urging Catholic women to take the vows," the official says. "We are not beating the bushes to persuade women to swear to remain virgins...