Word: pomp
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...judging by her performance so far, that's just not her style. Merkel appears to prefer working behind the scenes to basking in the limelight. She has brought a collegial atmosphere to the Chancellery that is proving wildly popular. "Suddenly a woman in black enters the stage without any pomp or circumstance and talks in a quite straightforward manner - analytically," says Gerd Langguth, a political scientist at Bonn University. "People like that." Cabinet meetings are more open and less hierarchical than they were in Schröder's day, though Merkel can be ruthless with long-winded colleagues. "When...
...your housemates, and your friends from freshman year do the same, your circle of friendship can expand exponentially. Visiting a friend in another House opens up a new world of social opportunity.It is telling that when my classmates and I graduate this June, we will celebrate first amidst the pomp and circumstance of a 30,000-person-strong ceremony. But then we will travel the blocks to our House courtyards, where our House masters will hand us our diplomas in an intimate ceremony. We will shake hands with a receiving line of teary-eyed tutors who have seen us grow...
Last Tuesday, national leaders gathered in Lithonia, Ga. to observe and partake in the funeral of the famed civil rights icon Coretta Scott King. Replete with hefty doses of pomp and spectacle, the nation watched with rapt attention as political and civil rights leaders paid their final respects to one of the great women of the 20th century...
...specific time and sipped brandy after the meal. But what Lowell could not have foreseen was what would happen when the tradition ceased, that is to say, how a space designed to provide community through daily, intimate social contact might fall short once daily programming was excised, and when pomp was replaced by informality...
...Houses remains unchanged, while the programming has disappeared. A quick glance at Yale College shows that they improved upon this system—students rave about their near-weekly in-house activities. Student groups bringing in renowned speakers shop them to the Masters instead of lecture halls. While the pomp and circumstance of the College experience has dissipated there as well, Yalies have made up for it by making their residential colleges important for more than just sleep, sustenance, and partying...