Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...desire for peace. "The war poetry of the last five years have wrought one inestimable service: it has told the pities truth, not only about the battlefield, but about the wrath and hate and greed that are coiled around the foundations of Europe. It says little of the pomp and circumstances of glorious war; it goes straight to the human facts underlying war; it shows that worldwide peace is conditioned upon the concrete and fundamental issues of justice, liberty, and fellowship...
...debt. Critical insight, and learning enlivened by touches of humor, the artist's feeling for the inevitable phrase--all these qualities combine to make it an enduring contribution to literature. The truth about war, Dr. Shepard points out, is not to be found in Othello's "Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!" but rather in Falstaff's "food for powder, food for powder." And this is the truth that the poets of the present war have expressed. In his "Dead Boche" Robert Graves writes...
...pomp and brilliance of Tudor England sweep past us in this sumptuous production. Majestic history lives again as 'full-blown Wolsey' (in Dr. Johnson's phrase), burly King Henry, and the nobly pathetic Queen Katharine tread the stage. It is a play of great figures clashing in great scenes. The death of Buckingham, the meeting of Henry and Anne Bollen at the ball, the trial of Queen Katharine, the fall of Wolsey, the coronation of Anne--these scenes show forth the spirit of that turbulent...
...Backs Go Tearing By" Keady-Blaisdell "Dear Old Dartmouth." Reynolds, '10 Golde, '10 (b) Finale of "The Founders," Wellman 4. Selection, "Mile, Modiste," Herbert 5. Ballet Music, "Faust." Gounod 6. (a) Men of Dartmouth, Hovey Wellman, '07 (b) Dartmouth Song, Segur-Wellman, '07 7. Selection, "IITrovatore," Verdi 8. March, "Pomp and Circumstance," Elgar (Organ, Mr. Marshall.) 9. "Glory to Dartmouth," Kenneth 10. American Fantasy, Herbert (Organ, Mr. Marshall.) 11. Waltz, "Espana," Weldteufel 12. "Old Dartmouth...
...Densmore. 2. Two Hungarian Dances, Brahms. 3. Overture to Iphigenia in Aulis, Gluck 4. March des Petites Soldats de Plomb, Pierne 5. Selection, Pinafore, Sullivan 6. (a) Sandman's Song and Evensong from Haensel and Gretel. Humperdinck (b) Minuet and Barcellona from Les Contes d'Hoffman, Offenbach 7. March-Pomp and Circumstance, Elgar...