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Into the House of Representatives moved the stately procession of legislators, Government officials, honored guests. The President of the Senate, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, presiding over his first joint session, sat pink-cheeked and solemn in his chair. Speaker John McCormack, seated next to Humphrey, gazed sternly into space...
Half an hour later, the march began. Down Sylvan Street they trooped. At Water Avenue they turned right and followed the road to the bridge. In the front rank marched four young S.N.C.C. workers, solemn and purposeful. Behind them, arms linked, were King and his brother, the Rev. A.D. William King, James Farmer, head of the Congress of Racial Equality, and others...
...farmers (all white) at an experimental farm south of Zambezi Escarpment. At an elephant barbecue on the shores of Lake Kariba, while maidens of the primitive Batonka tribe danced bare-breasted to the throb of buffalo-hide drums, Batonka Chief Binga attacked the African nationalists, adding with solemn African symbolism that "you cannot change a brown cow into a white...
...dramatic peak of the new ceremony was a solemn pontifical Mass concelebrated by the Pope and his new cardinals. It was, as Paul made clear, intended to symbolize the reality of episcopal collegiality-the idea, expressed by the Vatican Council's redefinition of the church, that bishops share ruling power with the Pope. In his address to the new cardinals, the Pope spoke of them as "our collaborators and advisers in guiding and governing the Holy Catholic Church...
Then, in a literary disappearance as abrupt and unexplained as Ambrose Bierce's, Shaw vanished. He was replaced by someone else named Irwin Shaw, who produced the swollen, solemn war novel The Young Lions. The craftsman's joy in a job done as well as a man could do it was missing; the book's two elaborate plots alternated like the footfalls of a tired man clumping upstairs...