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...most important figures, Bailey later called two witnesses who, he calculated, could hardly be said to be impartial but who could have had a favorable effect upon the jury: Patty's father and mother. Randolph A. Hearst, 60, president of the San Francisco Examiner, is a solemn-faced man these days, but he smiled warmly at his daughter as he settled into the chair. Hearst disputed Dr. Harry Kozol, a psychiatrist who testified for the prosecution that Patty was an incipient rebel before her abduction. She was "a very bright girl, pretty," Hearst said. "She was strong-willed...
...usually a pleasure. It's done in long, tangled, eclectic sentences; the thoughts come to him in bursts of various length, each one striving for profundity and literary value. This sometimes produces streams of semi-meaningless maxims (of Rubin, "He is Jimmy Connors deciding to be Chrissie Evert, as solemn as an oil rig;" of Canada, "a New Zealand on rubber wheels." Leonard must have some idea what these things mean). It also sometimes produces really good and perceptive lines (writers "will descend into pulpdom, where the libidinal cathexes are so simpleminded it seems that anyone with a grudge against...
THERE ARE FEW creatures as sad as sad alumni. They hover on the fringes of groups of jollier grads at class reunions, their class ties faded, their expressions somber. They have every reason to be solemn for they take upon themselves the responsibility of informing their classmates (with a ponderousness proportionate to the gravity of their message) that something is amiss at the college they all love so well. Though the tune may change, their sad song always conveys the same message: Alma Mater, that grand old dame at whose dugs they were once suckled on the sweet nectar...
...part, read the official announcement issued last week by Hsin-hua, the Chinese press agency. Soon after, it appeared again on the black-bordered front page of Peking's People's Daily; it was broadcast, preceded by solemn music, every half-hour on radio stations throughout China. In Peking, the elevator girl in an office building used by foreign journalists burst into tears when she heard the news. Headlines appeared in newspapers throughout the world, and messages of condolence started pouring into the Chinese capital. In a rare gesture of sympathy and respect, the flags at the U.S. consulate...
...kidnapings, and the subsequent cold-blooded murders, virtually paralyzed The Netherlands. While the Cabinet met in emergency sessions, television and radio stations suspended normal programming in favor of solemn music and news bulletins...