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...camaraderie quotient built as fresh busloads of arrestees poured in. A ritual was played out for each new arrival. A reception line was formed, composed of representatives from each Mayday "region." The newcomers held their right fists high in the standard radical salute or entered with their hands clasped on their heads, P.O.W. style. They were greeted with the chants: "Ho-Ho-Ho Chi Minh, N.L.F. is going to win," or "One-two-three-four, we don't want your...
...Both sides, as always, clung to their own higher logic-the protesters to the rights of humanity beyond all political or even practical considerations, the President to his responsibilities to a larger design for peace ("Not just for us, but for our children, their children"). But for all the ritual quality of both the demonstrations and Richard Nixon's pronouncements, they contained new and unique elements...
...involved the whole town of Verona in the clash of families, including a market-square fight with tossed oranges. He skipped the implausible intricacies of Romeo's exile and Friar Laurence's muddleheaded planning and then, to simplify the drama of the final tomb scene, dropped the ritual reconciliation of Capulets and Montagues over the lovers' bodies...
...thin-striped, vested, grey suit and a sky-blue tie, with his wife, Belinda, and a small entourage of B.U. officials, entered the gym. After a moment of collective disbelief, the crowd broke into an applause which quickly became a standing ovation. As if following some ancient ritual of court. Ali, whose style of movement outside the ring is that same electric grace of the floating butterfly with the sting of a bee, only slower, so that it may be observed easily by the naked eve, moved with the lecture officials and a small police escort to the right side...
...with such supreme achievements of manuscript painting as the Tres Riches Heures of the Due de Berry. Michelino's con-'emporaries in Milan could well have agreed: one of them called him "the most excellent of all the painters in the world," which, even allowing for the ritual hyberbole of renaissance prose, is still a startling tribute...