Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old Hewlett Johnson, Dr. Ramsey received the gold-encrusted shepherd's crook of his office, then moved to the grey marble Chair of St. Augustine,† on which each Archbishop of Canterbury has sat for his enthronement since 1205. Before speaking, Ramsey seemed deliberately to dismiss the pageant splendor around him, fumbling in his robes for his spectacles and his handkerchief. Carefully he cleaned each lens, placed the glasses on his nose, and wiped a drop of moisture from the palm of one hand. Then he began in fluting tones to preach for the first time...
...Many Sides. With occasionally effective theatrical moments, the play is strung out in pageant-caliber tableaux, beginning with the moment when 22-yearold Martin Luther was received into the order of Augustinian Eremites in Erfurt. Subsequently he is shown on the day he has significant difficulty saying his first Mass; he wrangles with his father, confers with his friend and guide, Johann von Staupitz, nails up his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, speaks forcefully to Cardinal Cajetan, the papal legate, and so on, until in the end he symbolically holds his young child...
...packed house of 36 panted in anticipation, the judges--three Poonies, the past state chairman of the Miss America Pageant, and I-received their instructions...
...Miss Ivy League" Beauty Contest will take place next Saturday night, May 20, at the Hotel Bradford during the Intermission period of the Ivy League Mixer. Two of the Judges announced to date are: Marland Slaven, past state director of the Miss America Pageant and Michael Lottman, Managing Editor of the Harvard CRIMSON...
...long mural by Realistic Regionalist Thomas Hart Benton, 72, for the library of fellow-Missourian Harry S. Truman in Independence. Worked up from a three-dimensional clay model and a miniature painting, the mural is, says Benton, whose eyes are tiring, his last major project. The crowded historical pageant, called Independence and the Opening of the West, shows Indians, hunters trappers, French explorers, settlers and adventurers-the men, says Benton, who gradually "changed Independence from a quiet backwoods settlement to the gateway of destiny...