Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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William Buckingham's merry set proclaims the play a pageant. An inspired Touchstone could have made it one If, in his first soliloquy, he had won the audience, the runnings about of the next two hours would have had coherence. But Peter Charles Johnson didn't have the necessary flair. He was convincing as an honest craftsman, but no more...
AMERICA'S JUNIOR MISS PAGEANT (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A genuine slice of Americana, this beauty contest searches for "the ideal high school senior girl" and is broadcast in color with TV Teacher James Franciscus (Mr. Novak) as host...
...Eisenstein on his own terms. By now his innovations have become either conventional or out-moded. His stories are unabashedly didactic: Potemkin was rushed through production in time to commemorate the 1905 uprising Nevsky was made as anti-German nationalistic propaganda in 1939, and Ivan was created as a pageant of Russian national unification...
...Honored Pageant. There was a narrower time, and it lasted well into Churchill's own youth, when a great state occasion was one of the few events that brought spectacle into most people's lives. Today, in an age of relentless distractions, when spectacle shouts from countless posters, pages and screens, pageantry must compete for attention, and in this sense it is diminished. But it is also more affecting than ever when, as in Churchill's case, it goes so plainly beyond show and becomes an expression of continuity between a nation's past...
...pageant honored Churchill; but Churchill also honored the pageant. For the occasion, directed in its inimitably British style by the Earl Marshal, the Duke of Norfolk, consisted of a succession of crowns, swords, escutcheons, and every other encrustation of royal power-a power that is noble because it no longer rules but only inspires. In granting a royal funeral to a commoner, Britain expressed the fact that its trappings of autocracy have long ago been triumphantly absorbed by democracy-a pertinent fact in the 20th century...