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...Nasser in a burst of emotional oratory, "there are generations ordained and solely chosen by destiny to witness decisive turning points in the history of mankind. This generation of Egyptians is one of those generations ordained by fate to live great moments of transition, moments that are like the pageant of the sunrise. We have witnessed the dawn of our independence, the dawn of our freedom, the rebirth of our pride and dignity, of our strength, of our hopes for a happy society. And today we live a new and glorious dawn, for the dawn of our unity is here...
Nonaddicts of historical fiction who may encounter The Winthrop Woman will probably experience the half-foolish, half-public-spirited emotions of citizens who have been cajoled into playing a part in some commemorative pageant: there is a good deal of history around, but somehow it seems to have got lost amid the fuss, feathers and false whiskers...
...greatest personalities of our time," said Laurence Sickman, director of Kansas City's Nelson Gallery. "Frankly, we welcomed the opportunity." Detroit Institute of Arts Director Edgar P. Richardson was equally pleased, said, "Our aim is to give the people a chance to observe the pageant of arts in our time, and certainly this is part of that pageant...
...accumulated bishoprics (and illegitimate children). His taste for high life and ceremony was not merely personal; pomp and circumstance were a matter of public relations, an art in which Wolsey was a master. A high point of his career came when he stage-managed the futile but beautiful pageant known to history as the Field of Cloth of Gold: in a pleasant French valley, England's King Harry and France's young King Francis I met to pledge a treaty of friendship. It was, says Author Ferguson, "the last great canvas of the Middle Ages ... it marked...
...conventioners will, they sat and chatted about last night's parties and this morning's hangovers. Then suddenly they fell quiet. From the south end of the hall, the legal pageant of Britain began to emerge and debouch onto the stone steps that formed a stage-judges of the High Court of Justice in ermine-trimmed scarlet; Lords of Court of Appeal in black knee breeches and gold-braided gowns; Lord Goddard, 80 years old, Lord Chief Justice, wearing an extra S-shaped band of gold braid. Trainbearers, bearers of the standard and the mace, each entered...