Word: pomp
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...oppressive sultriness of a tropical afternoon, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson stepped down from his silver-colored Boeing 707 at the Saigon airport in South Viet Nam, to be greeted with ruffles and flourishes, an honor guard, and all the pomp and circumstance of a high state visit. To accompanying U.S. newsmen who remembered L.B.J. as the hand-squeezing, baby-kissing politician on the 1960 campaign trail, the airport ceremonies seemed a bit incongruous. But things soon got back to normal: as soon as the formalities were over, Lyndon hurried out to the crowd gathered in front of the airport...
East, West, Home is Best. What dreary names for the women's Houses. At Harvard-Radcliffe, which in all things encourages free play in developing local fancy, such a step toward worldly facelessness can only be deplored. What is wanting is a lyrical quality, or the deserved pomp. If the Houses must box the compass, they might at least be Meridian, Antipodes, Capricorn and Cancer...
...Pomp and Circumstance, Coward...
Bedtime a I'ancien régime was a charade of pomp and circumstantial evidence. Each evening Louis XV pretended to occupy the monumental bed in the grandiose official apartment of Louis XIV at Versailles, while grand dukes and marquises vied to hold a candle or the King's nightshirt. As soon as the last light was snuffed out, Louis XV scrambled out of bed, scurried up a secret staircase and bedded down comfortably in his own cozy petit appartement. In the morning the whole absurd ritual began again in reverse...
Although the proposed modern diplomas disregard both tradition and taste, they have one outstanding advantage. They are small enough to mail to the graduating class, thus avoiding the wasteful pomp of commencement exercises. Martin Feldstein...