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...University of the South, better known as Sewanee, sits high atop a Tennessee mountain, so close to heaven that undergraduates believe the institution has its own guardian angel. Hence the school ritual: when a student drives out through the sandstone gates, he taps the roof of his car to summon the angel. When he returns safely to campus, he taps the car roof again to release his protector. Lately that celestial patron has been off campus on a new mission, fund raising. When Tennessee Williams died last month, the University of the South found itself the principal beneficiary...
Since talks on reducing nuclear weapons in Europe resumed two months ago, U.S. and Soviet negotiators have followed a prescribed ritual of meeting twice a week for an exchange of views. But so far, there seems to have been more talk in newspaper columns than behind the closed doors in Geneva. In keeping with that tradition, two top Soviet officials issued warnings in the press last week about what the Kremlin might do if NATO went ahead with plans to start deploying 572 U.S.-built intermediate-range missiles in Western Europe later this year...
...Bright Hockey Center about 25 minutes before game time this weekend and you'll catch a little ritual at the end of Harvard's pre-game warmups...
Almost alone among conservative columnists, moreover, he has refused to utter the ritual invocation that any departure by Reagan from right-wing dogma must be a result of his having been misled by aides. Repeatedly, Safire has been willing to put the onus for policy shifts squarely on the President. In January he wrote of what he regarded as Reagan's waffling in the State of the Union address: "He chose to be somebody else, or everybody else...
...lawyers, the writers joke about lawyers, including their less well-rounded fellow students who wear white socks with loafers. Rob Okun delivers some of the play's best lines as Leroy Fibre, the class dweeb. He gives Thornbook a rubber chicken as part of some arcane Ames competition ritual and lamely jokes about fondling it. Thornbook stares him down, and Okun stammers out, a la Jerry Lewis and Peter Lorre, "I really didn't fondle it; I only said that to impress...