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Today, some 25,000 will pack Harvard's hallowed Yard to march, to gawk, or to enter the "company of educated men and women." The ritual has long since hardened into a sturdy tradition. As Samuel Eliot Morison writes in his history of Harvard, Thomas Aquinas migh recognize today a lineal descent from the Commencement ceremonies he often attended in the 12th century--even then, they were marked by caps and gowns, Latin orations and general confusion...
...gala ritual of the Metropolitan's opening night last week, they were met with an unfamiliar sight. Television lights glared down on the huge Chagall murals and curving marble staircases. Cameras panned the red-carpeted lobby. On the Grand Tier balcony, presumably sophisticated first-nighters pressed around to gawk at Met Tour Director Francis Robinson's TelePrompTer as he beamed at interviewees. The occasion was a live broadcast to public television's 282 U.S. stations, as well as to Canada and Mexico. "It's like a political convention," complained one elegant buff. At least the women...
...African right of way.Three hours out of Dar, our express came to an abrupt halt; it had killed a young giraffe that had wandered out of the savannah. An hour was lost as the crew replaced a broken brake hose, while passengers crowded around the carcass to gawk and hack off chunks of meat. At Mkushi, one of the many Zambian bush towns that have been revitalized by the railway, we waited for two more hours under a broiling sun. Our engineer and conductor lost an argument with station controllers over whether our express or a lumbering local should have...
There were other distractions in Thurmont besides the absence of news. The press center dispensed cheap booze (35? for a beer, 50? for hard stuff). Idle journalists could walk the length of Thurmont's main street in about seven minutes or gawk at ABC's Barbara Walters and Anchor Frank Reynolds as they tried to negotiate the town's narrow streets in their matching chauffeur-driven Fleetwood limousines...
...Introductory meeting for theater types at the Loeb Drama Center. The president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club, a really nice guy, will give a little talk and a tour around this beautiful facility. Kind of fun, if only to gawk at the self-confessed theater types on campus...