Word: pomp
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Times have changed only slightly since. The revelry has become more sophisticated and subdued but Commencement is still one of New England's grandest spectaculars. What passes for traditional academic pomp mingled with joyous celebration is just as much kindergarten as college: once a year, now for the 314th time, the boys of Harvard are playing a game they call a festive rite, a game interrupted in three centuries only by a smallpox epidemic...
...London atmosphere comes from, except for a rooftop view of the Diamond Jubilee Parade through Trafalgar Square, with tiny Grenadier Guard puppets and the Queen's jeweled coach crossing a slanted backdrop that for one enchanting moment truly fools the eye with a child's dream of pomp...
...Pomp and Utility...
Lyndon Johnson was poised for the biggest day of his life, his first pomp-and-ceremonial inauguration. The event would be all the more stirring because of the jarring contrast with his first inauguration 14 months before in the cramped and sweltering cabin of Air Force One, with the coffin-encased body of John Kennedy only a few yards away...
...glad to know what's happening." Soon afterward, with the parliamentary pomp, the exhilaration and the confusion of the opening sessions over, Oklahoma's mite-sized (5 ft. 4 in.) Carl Albert was back on the House floor, ready for almost anything that might happen in the 89th Congress. Strolling among the desks, Albert sized up and greeted the neophytes. "Hi, how are you getting along?" he asked, extending his hand. "Come by and see me if I can help you in any way." One eager new comer asked when he could make a speech. Albert replied briskly...