Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walks in with a wisecrack. Neither the intellectual pomp inherent in the lecture format, nor the stolid, somber Eliot House library can dampen his compulsive sense of humor. "The plays are the essence of me," he says. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say he is the essence of his plays; his wit flows so effortlessly, so smoothly that it seems innate. Neil Simon, apparently can't help being funny...
Last but certainly not least. Cambridge's annual musical extravaganza, all $100,000 worth, opened last night at 12 Holyoke st. amid the usual "man of the year" pomp and will play six performances weekly for the next five weeks before touring in New York and Bermuda. Overtures in Asia Minor, Hasty Pudding Theatrical's 131st production, is a story of Near Eastern espionnage and intrigue. And, if the two scenes performed at last week's woman of the year" festivities are any indication, Overtures will continue the tradition of light-hearted farce performed by "dames" of dubious taste. This...
...four leaders landed at Guadeloupe's Pointe-à-Pitre airport within two hours of one another. The arrivals were easygoing: no pomp, bands or greeting ceremonies. At the summit site, the four leaders had identical lodgings: a cozy duplex made up of two units, each with its own bedroom, sitting room, kitchenette and bathroom...
lohn Updike, novelist: "I have never liked authors who kill off characters blithely. I think it's quite a solemn act and should done with as much pomp and love as Tolstoy does...
...surprisingly, the audience didn't seem anywhere nearly as bored as the cast with the whole thing. The story of "The Lass that Loved the Sailor" below her station--propelled by Gilbert's jabs at pomp and middle-class mediocrity--still fills an evening. But it was the deliberate self-conscious irony that made something out of Pinafore's obviously inane plot--the hundreds of little jokes in the script that combine to take all the starch out of the Victorian stuffed shirt...