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The article offers information on the training of Boston Red Sox at the Garden of Eden grandstand in Winter Haven, Florida. It mentions that before the practice begins, a small crowd gathers and waits patiently for the players to arrive. According to Tommy McCarthy, who worked as a concession for 16 years and made a connection with the sports team, he witnessed players come and go including P. J. McCarthy who had a stroke before the training properly started.

The article presents information regarding the First Annual North Atlantic Festival of Storytelling continuing at the Opera House at Rockport, Maine. One story told was from an Iroquois legend, explaining how birds got their song. Storyteller Jackie Torrence told Appalachian Mountain tales in her own Earth Mother Afro style.

The article focuses on the members of the Enrichment Class for Life and Death at the Myra Terwilliger Elementary School, outside Gainesville, Florida. It states that the members of the death-education class amaze their teacher, Judith Shaak, because of their impression of death as an ordinary thing. It adds that death-education courses are being taught in college, high school and elementary students, despite of the remark by Arnold Toynbee which says that death is un-American. Furthermore, it says that the children, who are mostly gifted fourth and fifth graders with intelligence quotients (IQs) above 125, perceive death as an ordinary thing and are taking like a game.

Formerly a place of freezing dormitories and Spartan education, the lamed university celebrates its 350th anniversary this month All Harvard graduates are divided into three parts. The first group is […]

Focuses on the history of the U.S. theater. British influences on the U.S. theater; List of theatrical productions brought to the U.S. from Great Britain; List of British stage actors who performed in the U.S.

Presents two books 'Gravity Rainbow,' by Thomas Pynchon and 'The Sunlight Dialogues,' by John Gardner. Theme of the novels; Description on the negative character in the book 'Gravity Rainbow,' named Tyrone Slothrop; Overview of two principal characters of the book 'The Sunlight Dialogues.'

Comments on key issues concerning Japanese art. Paradoxical message portrayed by Japanese art; Range of themes and issues explored by Japanese art; Samples of Japanese art.

Reflects on the marriage practices of American society with an allusion to the story of 'Romeo and Juliet,' by William Shakespeare. Social and economic advantages of nuclear family in an urban-industrial culture; Implications of the practice of marriage contract for the family; Concept of 'Brave New Marriage.'

The article offers information on the National Humanities Center (NHC) that was founded the center's president and philosopher Charles Frankel with a 625,000 dollars grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in North Carolina. The center contains historians, philosophers and member of the English departments from Washington University working on an answer for the many people to whom the absolute value of a liberal arts education which has become the casualty of modern doubt. In addition, NHC conducts ongoing seminars meeting on topics titled "Man and Nature," "Ideals of Education" and "History and the History of Ideas" dealing the difficulties of making national and parochial citizens.

The article features the views on the usage of the English language of Richard Mitchell, professor at the Glassboro State College in Glassboro, New Jersey. It mentions that Mitchell owns a printing press which operates to expose errors made by the English language committed by writers from the Glassboro State College. It notes that Mitchell has analyzed the reports from the college and has discovered comma faults, errors in subject-verb agreements, and excessive fustians. It also emphasizes Mitchell's objection against corrupting the English language by using adjectives such as "sleazy," "stupid," and "rubbish." According to Mitchell, the real purpose of the language is to talk about the world of the mind and the inability to master it.

The article focuses on the history of businessman Charles MacArthur's hydroelectric plant, Brown's Mill in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. It states that MacArthur's hydroelectric plant was comprised of five buildings, which were built with brick, mortar and wood. It recalls the history of the mill, which was established in 1867, and outlines how it has gone interesting stages of decay that prompted MacArthur to seek assistance for the government for its repairs. However, MacArthur had experienced failures in seeking assistance from various government agencies which prompted him to write personally to President Jimmy Carter's wife Amy, to inform about his other inventions and the problems of his hydroelectric plant.

The article focuses on the reliance by novelists of creating stories with characters based on real people. An accepted tool of revenge by novelists with a satirical bent is the basing of character on enemies, rivals, and unfaithful lovers. Such style of writing can suggest the bankruptcy of politics and art and pronounce the impotence of both one's capacity to behave well and to imagine passionately. Several authors who made stories in such style include Ernest Hemingway with his "The Sun Also Rises," Aldous Huxley with "Point Counter Point," and H.G. Wells with "Men Like Gods."

The article presents information on the use of Maypoles in the U.S. An American named Thomas Morton decided to show the New World how to celebrate; and he erected a Maypole of priapic pine at Merry Mount. It is stated that Maypoles meant not only festivity, but also rituals. On May Day 1627, the struggle for the U.S. was settled forever. It is stated that rituals are society's unwritten permission for civilized man to express emotions including fear, sexuality, and grief.

The article discusses the missing humor in the jokes of 1970s, as compared to that of 1960s. According to physician and comedian, Jonathan Miller, there is a rare disease called cataplexy, in which people are unable to laugh as they are seized by paralysis, but if people don't laugh now, it is not because of the disease, but due to lack of humor. It mentions that theaters have turned into theater of cruelty, homosexuality became the joke for matinee audiences.

The article reviews the theatrical production "Richard III," by William Shakespeare, starring Al Pacino and Linda Selman.