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Thus, amid centuries-old pomp and pageantry-and for the first time under the eyes of television cameras-the Queen last week summoned the Commons to a parliamentary session that promises to be the longest, most loquacious and most Laborious since the end of World War II. As 185 rounds of gunfire celebrated the double occasion of a royal birthday (it was Elizabeth's 40th) and Parliament's opening, Prime Minister Harold Wilson's strengthened Laborites made it clear that in this session they hope to pass all the controversial bills that their pre-election majority...
Selassie's visit, marked by pomp and circumstance from beginning to end, helped take the minds of the people off such problems for a few days, gave their leaders a chance to bask in Selassie's reflected glory. Trinidad-Tobago's Prime Minister Eric Williams, who extended the original invitation to Selassie two years ago, kept his visitor visible and on the go, attending receptions, laying wreaths and setting cornerstones. In the small, ornate parliamentary chamber of the country's "Red House," Selassie pleased everyone by calling for closer ties between "the two great peoples...
...Pomp & Pole-Axes. Interrogation and trial were cruel and cursory. The accused was haled before a bishop for a hearing at which little was heard, as a rule, but the bellowing of the bishop. Even so, the accused sometimes gave as good as he got. Cardinal Wolsey: "What, Mr. Doctor, do you think it more necessary that I should have golden shoes and golden cushions because I represent the king's person, or to sell all these things and give it to the poor, which will piss it against the wall?" Dr. Robert Barnes: "Give it to the poor...
...tangible and apparent--Quincy's apologists have interpreted subsequent years as a quest for a new House image, and a search for the dominant theme running through the House's activities. The apologists have forgotten Quincy's original intention. Quincy was not designed for those who wanted the pomp of the old Harvard, or for those who wanted to have a particularly elite life-style imposed on them. Instead, Quincy was designed for the vigorous student who sought to achieve his own goals without any restrictions upon his chosen patterns of living. Quincy has an elusive identity because it refuses...
...With pomp and flummery piled atop economic and ethnic chaos, democracy inevitably has a hard time. Though nearly all began by being governed in mufti, some dozen of the new postwar nations are now ruled by their military establishments. More and more, the military-officer corps plays the role of constitutional monarchy with emergency power. In the past nine months, seven African nations have been taken over by the military. "It is these men," says Gabriel Almond, president of the American Political Science Association, "who are initially most appalled at the signs of corruption and breakdown." New-nation armies...