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...pomp and circumstance are not meaningless pageantry. Parliament's ritualized opening is a reminder of the enduring roles of British tradition, of the monarchy and of the two houses of Parliament. All contribute to an unwritten constitution etched in customs and laws but not contained in a single document. The constitution has evolved in this way, says Historian Philip Norton, because, since the Norman invasion in 1066, there has been no point at which the system "has been completely swept away, allowing those in power to sit down and create from first principles a new and clearly delineated form...
AMID ALL the pomp and ceremony of today's festivities, the group of students will feel just a bit out of place. And no amount of marching through Tercentenary Theater, singing Crimson songs, or waving to friends will make them more comfortable. We are the transfer students, those motley few who began collegiate careers at other institutions before coming to Fair Harvard. No matter how hard we try, really feeling a part of Harvard will be as difficult today as it has been during our past two or three years here...
...Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Conn., have been working with 100 Chinese to stage the first American musicals ever seen in the country, The Music Man and The Fantasticks. For Music Man, which just opened, the Chinese took special pains to re-create the show-biz pomp and color of the original 1957 production, though the cultural leap did take some effort from both sides of the footlights. Chinese Opera Star Wang Xingna confesses that before playing Harold Hill he disliked American musicals. "Now I find they have merits," allows Wang. "I think the audience will like them...
...that finally did her father in, a pianoplaying marathon in Blackpool, Ellen tries to give some sense of Billy's repertoire during his last 15 days at the keyboard; several pages of song titles follow, including Beethoven's Mignonette in G, the Pilgrim's Chorus from Tan Houser and Pomp and Circumference March. The sharpie who egged Billy on to this fatal enterprise was named Jeremiah Feldfloh, which Ellen has trouble getting right; she tries Flyblow, Fieldflow, Freeflow, Feelflo, Fallfly, Flowflaw and numerous other permutations, most suggesting the evanescence of entrepreneurship...
...word "Ascot," when associated with horses, evokes images of traditional English pomp: prestigious races held before large crowds of stylish, high-society spectators...