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"Beware of those who would use
violence, too often it is
violence they want and neither truth
nor freedom."
Louis
Lamour
Spectacle
1. a public display or performance, esp a
showy or ceremonial one.
2. a thing or person seen as unusual: he makes
a spectacle of himself.
3. a strange or interesting object or phenomenon
mid-14c., "specially prepared or arranged display," from Old French
spectacle "sight, spectacle, Roman games" (13c.), from Latin spectaculum "a
public show, spectacle, place from which shows are seen," from spectare "to
view, watch, behold," frequentative form of specere "to look at," from PIE
*spek- "to observe"
"The average
millionaire is only the
average dishwasher dressed in a new suit."
George
Orwell
Festivals in ancient Rome
were an important part of Roman religious life during both the Republican and
Imperial eras, and one of the primary features of the Roman calendar.
Feriae ("holidays" in the sense of "holy days"; singular also feriae or
dies ferialis) were either public (publicae) or private (privatae).
State holidays were celebrated by the Roman people and received public
funding.
Games (ludi), such as the Ludi Apollinares, were not
technically feriae, but the days on which they were celebrated were dies festi,
holidays in the modern sense of days off work.
Although feriae were
paid for by the state, ludi were often funded by wealthy individuals.
Marcus Terentius Varro defined feriae as "days instituted for the sake
of the gods."
Religious rites were performed on the feriae, and public
business was suspended.
This plagued commerce as there was many
festivals: 13 in January, 16 in February, 17 in March, 16 in April, 14 in May,
19 in June, 16 in July, 18 in August, 7 in September(grain harvest), 13 in
October, 8 in November, 19 in December - for a total of 176 festival days a
year.
1960 Tall Story, a romantic comedy, premiers starring
Anthony Perkins with Jane Fonda in her
first screen role.
Jane Fonda goes to college to get married but
pretends otherwise.
Anthony Perkins is secretly propositioned, via
a radio message, by a
gambling syndicate to lose a key game to a
visiting Russian team.
Perkins refuses to do this, but is unable to
return the money that appears as he does not know who is behind the attempted
bribe.
Rather than throw the
game, a moral Perkins decides to deliberately fail an ethics exam, which
automatically disqualifies him from playing.
Perkins ethics professor,
Leo Sullivan, is coming under student and faculty pressure to reverse the
failure and give him a passing grade.
Sullivan refuses to do this on
the ethics principle of equality.
Coach mentions something about
education getting in the way of sports.
Sullivan gets arrested after
calling the arresting officer a
Cossack finally
consenting to give Perkins an oral retest while
the game is in
progress.
After this academics in US colleges and universities took
a backstage to sports.
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