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Times have changed only slightly since. The revelry has become more sophisticated and subdued but Commencement is still one of New England's grandest spectaculars. What passes for traditional academic pomp mingled with joyous celebration is just as much kindergarten as college: once a year, now for the 313th time, the boys of Harvard are playing a game they call a festive rite, a game interrupted in three centuries only by a smallpox epedemic...
First Hint. The engagement, to one of Spain's grandest grandees, might logically have mollified a mother with four unmarried daughters. Not Irene's mother. Queen Juliana is the eight-time great-granddaughter of William the Silent, a Calvinist princeling who led Protestant Holland in its bitter war of independence against Catholic Spain, until his death at the hand of a Spanish assassin in 1584. William is revered by the Dutch as the Father of the Fatherland, and his House of Orange has occupied the throne continuously since The Netherlands became a monarchy 150 years ago. To Dutch...
...East African coast 80 years before the Portuguese got there in 1498. Both front page stories, purporting to prove that China and Africa had a long history of "friendly intercourse," celebrated the departure for post-colonial Africa of Communist China's Premier Chou Enlai, who is the grandest panjandrum from Peking ever to visit that continent...
Solomons was most striking in "Nocturne." The entire company excelled in this piece, which enabled the dancers to demonstrate their perfect ease and technical skill, landing without a sound from even the grandest leaps. Their erotic dance, unencumbered by Message, showed the most imaginative choreography of the evening...
...Perhaps the grandest of our plans is a restaurant which will serve daily luncheon of exotic foods," the manager said. "We're shooting for Dec. 1 as the date to have this in operation. When we do, we'll serve all the things that no one else in Harvard Square serves--everything from octopus to Shrimp Louis...