Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grow, will the great cities of the U.S. be able to survive? The answer seems to be that they will survive just so long as man feels the need of their witness to his accomplishments and grandeur, just so long as he continues to heed that siren song of pomp, pleasure and stimulation. "They will not last if we do not care," said City Lover Leland Hazard, a Pittsburgh businessman, before a Boston conference on community problems. "A city does not endure by the work of hirelings. A city endures when its least and its greatest citizen love it alike...
FROM his study of this diplomatic record, Taylor concludes that Hitler never planned or expected a full-scale war. Even German rearmament only proves the Fuehrer's love of machinery and military pomp, and his (or Economic Minister Schacht's) perception that large State budgets end depressions. It does not point to an intention to use the new force aggressively...
...lies a serious, or at least an earnest argument. "Out there the officers and men discovered that military effectiveness requires adopting the techniques used by the Communists: guerilla warfare, total mobilization of the population, and an unflinching dedication to the achievement of the political goal, without military unnecessaries like pomp and show, or indulgence in intellectual subtleties like defining and refining the goal...
...judiciary but by the recently established "comrades' courts," composed of ordinary citizens-so far used mostly to deal with juvenile delinquency and lighter cases of "antisocial behavior." While many Russians favor quickie divorces, others press for long, old-fashioned engagements and more romantic wedding ceremonies. To replace the pomp of church weddings, many Russian cities now have "wedding palaces." much like U.S. funeral parlors, where couples can find the music and atmosphere they miss in registry offices. Chief complaint: wedding palaces are so much in demand that their use is re stricted to couples under 30 getting married...
Handel: Royal Fireworks Music (The Telemann Society Band, conducted by Richard Schulze; Vox). Handel's famous pomp-and-circumstantial salute to the 1748 Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle is here given the closest thing to an authentic performance that most listeners will ever hear-or perhaps want to. By using antique, 18th century winds and brasses, Conductor Schulze gets a gaudy, gamy sound characterized by clashing pitches that will curdle most modern ears...