Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Unkinged, Richard is most kingly. The fire of majesty flashes from Chamberlain's brow as he rebukes the usurping Bolingbroke: "The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord." In his final scene, as piteously alone as he was once in clamorous pomp attended, bereft of crown and wife, Richard seems a saint redeemed...
...tall tales about good ole boys back home in hill-country North Carolina. In rambling Senate speeches, he quotes the Bible, Jefferson and Kipling; he opposes most civil rights bills and accuses the Supreme Court of killing the Constitution's meaning by "verbicide." But for all his Claghornian pomp and ceremony, Sam Ervin is no archetypal Southern reactionary. He is in fact one of the Senate's ablest civil libertarians...
...savvy comes from years of labor mediation, in many cases "crisis mediation." But there's an additional dimension to it. Because Dunlop seems more comfortable with the head of the Carpenter's Union than at Faculty teas, is one professor explained, he's duly unimpressed with much of the pomp and grandeur of the University...
Like Georges Clemenceau, who was buried with rites of spartan simplicity in the Vendée 41 years ago, De Gaulle sternly prohibited any trace of pomp. Wrote De Gaulle: "I want no national funeral. Neither President nor Ministers nor Assembly committees nor public authorities." But, he added, "the men and women of France and of other countries may, if they wish, do my memory the honor of accompanying my body to its last resting place...
...lips, a toss-up of locks-it was Tiny Tim in Yorkshire at the start of a five-week tour of England. But Tim's manner seemed so inappropriate to his matter (The Land of Hope and Glory, the superpatriotic hymn to Britain from Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance) that onetime Coldstream Guardsman Jim Smith, 34, felt impelled to wrest the mike away. "This man was running down England," barked the unrepentant Guardsman. "I'm quitting," trilled the unrepentant singer, who thereupon flounced back to the States...