Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pomp and uncertain circumstances greet Reagan on his trip to Europe
...strains of Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance, played by a 42-piece band, echoed over the prairie as they had for decades. The dress and demeanor of the audience were those of prosperous people, but even in this celebration of achievement there was deep worry, masked by the natural good manners of country folk. They do not like to burden others with personal stress. Yet, when they had the opportunity, they asked a visitor over and over: "Does Washington know how bad it is out here...
Nonetheless, the Barbados party was about three times the size of the 110-person entourage that the leader of the other superpower, Leonid Brezhnev, took to Bonn last November. Leaders of other important countries make do with even less pomp. The standard for official modesty might belong to President Sandro Pertini of Italy, who, to be sure, fills a largely ceremonial office. When he came to Washington on a state visit last month, he took a chartered Alitalia jet and brought along a retinue of only 15. - By George J. Church...
Smith said that the Marshals committee will meet again and decide whether to have a speaker based on general student sentiment. Student feeling now seems to be. "Enough with pomp and circumstance--let's go have lunch." he added...
...attack you-know-who and Prince Philip, Margaret and her husband provided vicarious prey as "the two highest paid performing dwarves in Europe." Recently she has offered comforting proof of what every commoner suspects: royalty, in the words of Margaret's uncle, Edward VIII, is "duty without responsibility, pomp without power"-in brief, a gilded misery. With such a history of service, Princess Margaret remains, at 51, one of the European Community's best bargains. Pity the same cannot be said for her biography. -By Stefan Kanfer