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...Democrats did not, of course, extend that feeling of good cheer toward their Republican opponents. Although Candidate Carter and his teams of advisers went out of their way to praise President Ford as a decent, well-intentioned man, convention oratory repeatedly linked him and Richard Nixon. Watergate, expected to be almost a subliminal issue, was cited in varied pointed ways. "Who broke and entered in the night?" asked New York Governor Hugh Carey on opening day. "Who opened the mails? Who tapped the phones?" Hubert Humphrey, in the second night's most resounding old-style oratory, drew sustained applause...
Traditionally, the loudest cheer of West Point's graduation ceremonies goes to the "goat," the cadet who finishes at the bottom of his class. As No. 835 in a class of 835, Goat Jesse Owens won a creditable round of applause at Michie Stadium last week. But the biggest hand-an extravagant two-minute ovation-went to No. 757 in the class: William Andersen, chairman of the cadet-run Honor Committee that enforces the Military Academy's honor code. Said Brigadier General Walter F. Ulmer Jr., commandant of cadets: "There was a message there for somebody...
...song is a good ten years old. The place goes up for grabs: the collective memory of a generation is galvanized into sweet lyric communion; 16,500 fans in Atlanta's Omni arena stand, cheer, and start to drift away, remembering...
Liberated from the conventions that made it "improper and unpleasant to reveal anything about sex," Travers felt he could create characters like Alma, the heroine of Bed. By the last act, Alma is chasing her fatigued new husband back into the bedroom; audiences affectionately cheer her on to a rendezvous that completes the comic transformation from Victorian prude to exuberant earth mother...
Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday was hailed across the land last Tuesday. At Monticello, University of Virginia students gave him a cheer and a toast at dawn, and on the floor of the House of Representatives three scholars tried to pour a little of his wisdom into the heads of legislators, who were impatiently edging toward the Easter exit. Jerry Ford limousined over to the Jefferson Memorial to lay a wreath and claim some political kinship with the Virginian. And even one cab driver's tribute was recorded augustly by the Washington Post: "Yeah, I guess...