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...ceremonial reading of the Declaration of Independence this week was accompanied by a triple volley of musketry and ended with a loud chorus of student cheers. All three stories of Nassau Hall were grandly illuminated for the occasion, with tallow dips in every window casting a glow that could be seen for miles around. The students' pride in the occasion was undoubtedly enhanced by the knowledge that their own president, the Reverend John Witherspoon, took part in the congressional deliberations last week. He forcefully told wavering delegates that the country is, in his words, "not only ripe...
Sleekly coiffed, teased and sprayed, she glittered in the drab Nixonian setting, where to glow was considered a nono. She had an unbridled tongue and an addiction to nocturnal phone calls that converted her into a national celebrity. When she died last week, abandoned and alone, Martha Mitchell strangely seemed more of a figure from the distant past than one on whom the spotlights shone a scant two years...
...pilgrims pass in slow procession through the soft peach glow of the great rotunda, moving up to the shrinelike cases that hold the documents. Honeymooners Karen and Philip pause for long moments. Bonnie, a senior on her class trip from Starbuck, Minn., traces with her fingertip the familiar signatures: G. Washington, B. Franklin. Principal Dennis Trump, shepherding 40 students from South Sioux City (Neb.) High, says with fervor, "It's a feeling of splendor to see the things you hold dear. All the meaning and truth of the whole idea come together...
...Occident; his calligraphy does not even look particularly Eastern, especially since it has no literal meaning. What we now enjoy is the atmospherics: the coalescence of minutely knitted, sharply registered flicks of line rendering a pulsation of light like that of the moon through rain or neon glow over Broadway...
...improves when she's in good company; she's fine in the rape scene, where Chris Sarandon gives a controlled performance of a moderately sick young man, without resorting to the crazed eyes and maniacal gestures of the stereotype. And her willful strength in the courtroom is the reflected glow of Anne Bancroft's fiery performance as her lawyer. Bancroft, looking rather haggard, uses her familiar tight-lipped, manipulative and superbly confident persona for the forces of good this time; here she's Mrs. Robinson in professional clothing, expressing her contempt for men with the zeal of a crusader...