Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...university entrance examinations. "I only wanted Akihito to get out and talk to me," he insisted at police headquarters. "I wanted to convince him that Japan should be a republic." Unaware of what genteel penury the Japanese royal family lives in, he also seemed to think that royal pomp was a heavy drain on the poor...
Last days of Pomp...
...XXIII has been on the throne of St. Peter only four months, but he is already the best-loved Pope of modern times. Rome has rarely known anyone like the stout, bustling, punchinello-faced old man, who combines warmth, wit and frankness with a dignity that is free of pomp. He is an able, creative, precedent-breaking administrator with a rare humility and an ever-present concern for people. He has been readier than any other Pope in memory to leave the Vatican, a man about town who likes nothing better than to dodge his chauffeurs and stomp through Roman...
...carried on the un-Indian custom for 96 years. Any Namdhari Sikh couple has religious sanction for group marriage so long as it is conducted personally by the sect's leader, Satguru Partap Singh, 68. The cost per couple last week: $5.46. Satguru Partap is so set against pomp that in his sect a couple is excommunicated if a dowry is discovered. In 1911 he sponsored legislation sanctioning group marriage for Indians of all sects. It is still on the books, to be relied on by any Indian who dares to flaunt social pressure and stop spending...
Centered in Bombay, Indian moviemaking is a montage of pomp, profit and speculation. The size of the market is fantastic : 730 million annual Indian moviegoers, plus Southeast Asia, the Middle East and many countries behind the Iron Curtain. But Bombay also has trouble: a severe star shortage. For all of Bombay's 20 studios, which make some 300 pictures yearly (in 19 Indian languages), there are only twelve top stars. They work in as many as 15 movies simultaneously, dashing from studio to studio in limousines, and often a hero and heroine do their parts in so many scattered...