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...fact, is the very essence of Seoul, a vigor and emotionalism that find expression in the fierceness of the city's rites. At the World Evangelical Crusade in the Yoido Plaza last month, half a million Christians gathered round, crying "Allelujah!," their bodies swaying, their faces suffused with joy, tears streaming from their tight-closed eyes. Yet even in their ecstasies, the devotees were model citizens of Seoul: almost no one stood up, lest he obscure another's view...
...nationalistic fans, boycotts brought joy. Without the U.S. and 61 other countries on hand, the Soviet gold-medal tally jumped from 49 in Montreal to 80 in Moscow, while the U.S., unhindered by the Soviets and the equally formidable East Germans, vaulted from 34 gold in Montreal to 83 gold in Los Angeles. With the sporting world reunited, Seoul may be a rude awakening for flag wavers on both sides. But the shock will likely be worse for U.S. viewers: the memory of Los Angeles is more recent, and more unrealistic. At the 1984 Friendship Games, East bloc athletes outperformed...
...have to listen to presidential candidates to realize that the American family is the national religion. It is a religion based on a noble fantasy: the dream of blood belonging. Some families stay together through love, or through propriety or inertia. All are bound by intimately shared joy and pain, by a need to keep the dream of personal immortality alive for just one more generation. Every parent must believe he will be born again in the new, improved image of his child...
...sometimes lecture together, share a philosophy that owes more to common sense and The Joy of Sex than to Marx. Liu, for example, does not condone premarital sex, but he considers it a fact of life for up to 30% of Chinese youth. The trend, he often explains to parents, is a consequence of China's "one couple, one child" policy of population control. The late marriages and subsequent late births encouraged by the policy, he believes, "do not conform to the physiological development of human beings." People reach their sexual prime toward the end of their teens...
...Summer joy riding: more and more people are finding that bicycling offers a little of everything -- fun, fitness and a great escape...