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...life. Greeks again serenade a girl who has accepted a fraternity pin from a brother. Corsages, long dresses and black tie are back for dances. Initiation ceremonies, long scorned as juvenile (and now largely cleansed of the rough stuff), are once again emotional experiences, with pledges of fealty by candlelight. On some campuses, Hell Week has been renamed Inspiration Week. Senior Kyle Williamson of the University of Colorado's Sigma Phi Epsilon house, which prides itself a membership of jocks and other square-shouldered types, admits that "a lot of guys cry." Buckley Gillock of Virginia speaks for generations...
This evening students also plan to hold a mock funeral procession and candlelight vigil at Memorial Church to commemorate Blacks who have died in South Africa...
...stay within a budget limit of $9 million to $10 million, the committee is scheduling one-third fewer events this year. Gone are 1981's candlelight dinners and highbrow concerts at the Kennedy Center, and satellite balls across the country. Even the parade following the public swearing-in, with its 57 floats, 43 bands, the U.S. equestrian team and a dogsled, has been cut from the normal 2 1/2 hrs. to 1 hr. 15 min. The method: faster marching...
...love. Somewhat perilous, but not disagreeable." Boswell reports, "I awaked at noon, with a severe head-ach. I was much vexed that I should have been guilty of such a riot . . ." These and scores of similar entries defy decades and space. They might have been written centuries ago by candlelight or last night by fluorescent lamp. As A Book of One's Own amply demonstrates, a diary is a kind of looking glass. At first it reflects the diarist. But it ends by revealing the reader...
...some, the weekend came close to achieving that end. "If the country rejected us, and it did," said John Ruehlmann, 37, a former Army sergeant, "we can get together here, bound by the monument." That harmony was expressed in a variety of ways, from a candlelight vigil to a '60s nostalgia concert by Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons; the mood throughout shuttled between tearful meditation and joyous, beery reunions. At the end, just about everyone seemed to feel a little better...