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...President since has been up to that measure. But no President has ever had such a crisis, one that would so surely get people's attention and inspire cooperation. The 100th-day ritual is not without some logic. It is a reasonable time to take stock of the start, but it is an uncertain guide to a President's success. John Kennedy's 100 days were unrelieved disaster and hesitation, and his temper suffered accordingly: "I'm going to give this damned job to Nixon," he once said. It took Lyndon Johnson a year to spawn...
Every school-day morning on the Lilly Bridge near Altoona, Pa., children go through a poignant ritual that matches the plight of those commuters. A yellow bus parks just short of the decrepit 57-year-old structure, the doors swing open and its young passengers troop across the bridge on foot. Then the driver follows-slowly-to pick them up again, knowing that even if the bridge gives way under the weight of the bus the children will be safe...
...that the evening's theme is to be construction. But that's the last we hear of it. It's never explained or worked through, aside from the vague relationship between the secret society of Freemasons and the actual work of masonry, and the even vaguer relationship between Masonic ritual and parts of The Magic Flute--which Prum does not underscore, but parodies, giving his priests of Isis red-plastic horns to blow and coffee-can censers. Later, Prum projects photos of Widener to illustrate Prince Tamino's approach to the Temple of Wisdom...
...years, but when this wedding takes place it's going to look like high noon. Lady Diana is that rare phenomenon: a real-life embodiment of the Hollywood image of a princess. Her marriage to the Prince of Wales is interesting not only as a social and national ritual but also as the most engrossing kind of theater...
President Reagan had planned to throw out the first ball in Cincinnati last week, the first Chief Executive to do so since President Ford in 1976, but since he was still in the hospital, the opening day ritual was skipped altogether. Explained the Reds' p.a. announcer: "There can really be no appropriate relief pitcher for the President of the United States...