Word: rites
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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This startling first novel is a sinuous pagan rite. Faith is a sort of classic nymph, but instead of trees, rivers and mountains, she haunts galleries, fine restaurants and her tasteful London house. Jacques is an ageless satyr, but instead of tootling the pipes of Pan in some mythic glade, he rummages in London garbage cans and beds down on park benches. He is human dirt, but of a kind that makes the earth earthy. She is refined past the point of passion, yet curiously unawakened, nervously expectant. In the hands of a less urbane stylist, a sexual encounter between...
...stricken, notes Psychology of Funeral Service, "are less capable of reasoning than under normal conditions . . . They want to do the accepted thing . . ." And some people's idea of the accepted thing can run as high as a $19,000 casket with "Ever-Seal air, watertight construction, and Ever-Rite adjustable bed, all in a zestful champagne finish, but a semi-tailored interior of gold tone, savoy crepe...
...continued, emphasizing the passion of people for each other. Because of the prominent place that love occupies on the stage, the Englishman reiterated, the theater is a natural place for adolescents to express the new depths of their emotions. "In a sense, the theater is an extended puberty rite," he jested...
...Guillotine. The third game brought the teams to New York, where Yankee fans calmly accepted the Series as an annual rite of autumn, as expectable as Thanksgiving. Beginning where they had left off, the Yankees in the first inning had already scored two runs and loaded the bases when the unlikeliest slugger of them all stepped into the box, looking fully as dangerous as any promising Little Leaguer. Second Baseman Bobby Richardson got every bit of his 5-ft. 9-in., 166-lb. frame behind his swing and hit a grand-slam home run into the leftfield seats. For Richardson...
...season, but there are some still amazingly fresh items from last year's bill of fare with which to contend: Toys in the Attic, Lillian Hellman's skillful exploration of the Sons and Lovers theme, stars Jason Robards Jr.; The Tenth Man mixes modern psychology and ancient rite in Playwright Paddy Chayefsky's tale about a Jewish girl possessed by an evil spirit; The Miracle Worker, with brilliant performances by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, dramatizes the brave, difficult relationship between blind and deaf-mute Helen Keller as a child and her teacher, Annie Sullivan; The Best...