Word: pomp
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...public question. Regardless of how surprised anyone is or was, I never had a college acceptance party, or heard of any. Most students just buy the sweatshirt of their chosen school to represent their decision. In the wake of the high-school graduation frenzy, there is little pomp and circumstance beyond the congratulations received from those who know the student (and even those who don’t). As Commencement approaches, though, the celebration of these academic accomplishments seem to have been elevated to a new level and an expensive one, at that. Tickets can be purchased for the various...
...school spirit” stops at least three times a year—Harvard/Yale, Housing Day, and Commencement. But I don’t think a football rivalry articulated by getting wasted at 10 a.m., the jingoism about arbitrary placement in a dorm, and a week of pomp and circumstance make a school spirited. These are all rituals, in which it’s easy to go through the motions, get drunk, and wear a vaguely chauvinist House pride t-shirt...
...later won the Oscar for—their tune “Falling Slowly” from “Once,” the show became for a moment genuinely entertaining—and from a musical number, no less! These hitherto unknown artists performed their song without pomp or circumstance and delivered the most earnest and hopeful acceptance speech at the ceremony. But what made that moment so special was that it was so anti-Oscar. Indeed the rest of the ceremony left me entirely spent. I felt like Daniel Day-Lewis...
...blue America, a nation polarized between Democrat and Republican, city and country, with entire elections teetering on the last-minute decisions of a few Ohio soccer moms. Forget what you know about the inaccessible general-election candidate, hidden behind layers of Secret Service and stage-managed pomp. Scratch those notions of a Republican Party that sidles up to pharmaceutical companies and oil giants, never ruffling the paymasters' feathers...
Earlier this year, Drew Gilpin Faust was installed as Harvard University’s 28th president with much pomp and circumstance. Despite the tradition of this ceremony, it contained hallmarks of modernity, including a “local and sustainable dinner” prepared by Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) and served in dining halls across campus. This non-traditional meal represents the end-goal of Harvard’s attempts to prioritize sustainable eating. However, like President Faust’s installation ceremony, these attempts to progress toward sustainability remain largely symbolic. For widespread change to occur on campus...