Word: pomp
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...vintage Harvard pomp and circumstance at the University's 341st Commencement Exercises, when 5804 students from Harvard's 10 schools received degrees under an increasingly...
...were beyond the reach of living talent; one could only marvel at what Canova, on first seeing the Elgin Marbles in 1815, called "the truth of nature conjoined to the choice of beautiful form -- everything here breathes life . . . with an exquisite artifice, without the slightest affectation or pomp...
...hadn't had a public inauguration since 1909 so there was no one alive at Harvard who remembered the president being inaugurated publicly," Gomes says. "I think it came off with style. It wasn't pompous. But it had pomp...
Walsh managed to raise approximately $28,000 through donations and some slightly more posh revenue generators, such as a June boat cruise, which cost $3000, and a pre-election gala at the Sheraton Commander on Friday. But in spite of the pomp that surrounds many of the bigger-spending candidates' fundraising events, most candidates and campaign managers, despite their large budgets, still say they belive in a grassroots approach to building financial and political support...
...beauty of the scene, and the pomp and color of the academic procession, made me even more excited about the event than I already was. I had long been a confirmed Rudenstinian, though I had never seen the new president in person. Last year, I had been pleased by some convincing steps he had taken toward a more open dialogue with students--notably the institution of presidential office hours. Reading newspaper interviews had convinced me even more of his good intentions, especially in the area of undergraduate education...