Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amid the tradition of pomp and bluster, Peter N. Smith '83 has his work cut out for him. Smith is student government's soft-spoken, almost nondescript treasurer; it's hardly a glorious spot. But as keeper of the student government's first-eve $58,000 budget, the placid rookie to campus politics will undoubtedly become one of Harvard's better known student leaders, if not one of the most controversial...
...life is filled with pomp and ceremony, but George Bush still seeks pleasure and meaning in the little things. He remembers vividly a late snowstorm in Maine when newly arrived robins crowded one another for peanut-butter spread on a shingle. He was just as fascinated last week when his cocker spaniel C. Fred treed a raccoon outside the Bush home on Observatory Hill in Washington. Bush and his wife Barbara often stroll in the evenings around the stately old house that is now established as the Vice President's residence...
...pomp and ceremony, the Versailles summit [June 14] failed to put forward any concerted plan to overcome the economic crisis or to help the Third World. Though mutual pledges were exchanged and an appearance of unity was displayed, once the spell of Versailles has faded, each of the seven will lapse again into nationalistic self-interest. The Western world badly wants unity, but the summit was just another show of pageantry...
...great world stage for him," said one of the French officials involved in planning Ronald Reagan's ten-day visit to Europe this week. Indeed, the pomp has been designed to match the circumstances of the President's first visit overseas since taking office. There will be a meeting with other Western leaders at Versailles, with a formal dinner in the fabled Hall of Mirrors and a king's bedroom for Reagan in the Grand Trianon. Then on to Rome to meet the Pope, as well as Italy's President and Prime Minister. In Britain...
...began in a morning of pomp and smiles, not just another page in Vatican travelogues but an undeniably special moment in history. Winding through London's Westminster Cathedral came a procession of robes crimson and scarlet, gold-embroidered, black and white, with plumed hats and swords of the old English orders strutting into this unexpected tapestry of medieval drama. At the heart of the panoply, and at the heart of the substance of the opening of this six-day event, was the red-robed figure of John Paul II, the Pope of love, controversy and ecumenical vision. Sitting...