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Every funereal shade of gray in nature's catalog draped Penn State for the occasion of Joe Paterno's public memorial service, a perfectly lachrymose contrast to the brilliant colors of so many festive autumn Saturdays.
The Bryce Jordan Center, hulking there in the rain and fog and imminent sleet across the road from Beaver Stadium, was simply not meant for this.
You went there to see Springsteen, Sting, Prince, or, if you must, basketball, but not to hear the haunting and still somehow vaguely comforting compositions of Ennio Morricone, whose work provided the auditory ambiance for some 12,000 people who had convened Thursday for nothing less ambitious than to relaunch a legacy.
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