Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first note of the melody is represented by an asterisk. For example, the famous signature of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony would be written *RRD. Mary Had a Little Lamb works out like this: *DDUUR RDRRU URD. Graduates who this June march up the aisle to Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance-*DUUDD DDUUD UUUUU-may well sing *URRUD DUUDR UUU, Auld Lang Syne, when next they meet. Letter codes for musical compositions are arranged in alphabetical order, with classical melodies carried through the first 16 notes and popular songs through 14 tones...
...final exams draw to a close and the pomp and circumstance of graduation steps into the limelight, discussion inevitably revolves around. "What are you doing next year?" "Oh, the law school huh? No, I'm taking next year off to make the European swing." Basically, conversation gets very tedious...
...Banning Pomp. The French President also won approval for more regular meetings of the heads of government-or the European Council, as they are now called when they come together -with at least three sessions scheduled each year. As the host at last week's meeting, Giscard had taken elaborate pains to emphasize that it was not a summit in the usual sense, and he had asked that each leader look on it as if it were a meeting of his own domestic Cabinet. Only the heads of government and their foreign ministers attended the main meetings...
...Pope, for instance, dactylic hexameters were given their royally cadenced English equivalent to which Homeric heroes stepped rather like late-Renaissance princes. Robert Fitzgerald, Harvard's Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and a poet (Spring Shade, 1971) in his own right, has cut back on the pomp without scaling down the epic. His battlefield seems bleaker-black and white rather than Pope technicolor. His protagonists are closer to Beowulf than to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The blank-verse lines may flex to a Homeric simile, but in combat they are as direct as a dagger thrust...
Died. Jaya Chamarajendra Wadiyar Bahadur, 55, wealthy former Maharajah of Mysore and one of the last of India's great princes; of bronchial pneumonia; in Bangalore, India. Wadiyar ascended Mysore's throne in 1940. Though he ruled with a fabled fondness for splendor, pomp and courtly ritual, Wadiyar also did much to modernize his 125,000-sq.mi. realm. In 1947, when India began consolidating the 550 princely states left behind after British rule, Wadiyar was one of the first potentates to relinquish his sovereignty; from 1956 to 1964 he served as appointed Governor of Mysore, and from...