Word: pomp
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...weekend, most of the campus observed the biennial tradition of journeying down to Yale for The Game. Bedecked in Crimson regalia and perhaps even tipsy from preemptive victory celebrations, students packed into shuttles for the tortuous trip down the Turnpike and Interstate 91 to New Haven, eagerly anticipating the pomp and circumstance that is our proudest piece of Harvard mythology...
Remember when Drew G. Faust was “installed” as Harvard’s president? There was pomp, circumstance, and lots of old people in black muumuus...
...Then prompt no more the follies you decry, / As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die; / ‘Tis yours this night to bid the reign commence / Of rescu’d Nature, and reviving Sense; / To chase the charms of Sound, the pomp of Show, / For useful Mirth, and salutary Woe / Bid scenic Virtue form the rising age, / And Truth diffuse her radiance from the stage...
...words, the closing lines of a poem Samuel Johnson composed in 1747 to commemorate the opening of the Drury Lane Theatre in London, were applicable to the “pomp of show” of the NCT’s opening. But they may also fit with a prevalent theme in her new tenure: A bid to rescue the “charms of Sound” and “scenic Virtue...
...spent an hour soaked in the pomp and circumstance of Tercentenary Theater (most bootleg theater ever, btdubs!). I was shivering half of the time, praying for short speeches the other half of the time, and being shushed by my neighbors for praying too loudly the other half of the time...