Word: pomp
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...many Americans, it was the near equivalent of the royal wedding that Britain is preparing for, albeit with a slight reversal of roles. At Westminster Abbey this Wednesday, with suitable pomp and ceremony, Prince Andrew of the House of Windsor weds his commoner (but uncommon) love, Sarah Ferguson. But near Hyannis Port, Mass., last Saturday, the bride was the Princess of Camelot when Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, 28, daughter of President John F. Kennedy and former First Lady Jacqueline Onassis, was married to the very un-Kennedyesque Edwin Arthur Schlossberg, 13 years her senior...
...Independence Day) ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore...
Adams anticipated the pomp and ceremony and would no doubt have appreciated Wolper's efforts to bring forth tears and goose bumps from the masses huddled around the New York City waterfront for Friday's spectacular fireworks. But he could not have imagined the 200 Elvis Presley look-alikes who will perform during Wolper's Sunday night finale. Nor could he have dreamed of spending up to $30 million for a party or making $10 million by auctioning off broadcasting rights to ABC television. He would be puzzled by the multifarious products with the Statue of Liberty imprint: Liberty charcoal...
Imagine the John Harvard statue (a replica, actually) floating down a barge on the Charles. Imagine the Harvard Band coming down to the Charles to meet Johnnie's boat and escorting him to the Yard playing great songs of pomp and circumstance all the while. Imagine John proceeding in state up to the Yard where more than 3000 undergraduates will greet him by toasting the statue and making speeches...
...Mystery of Edwin Drood, and that tantalizing incompleteness has prompted countless attempts to round off the novel's Gothic plot. The story echoes Dickens' familiar themes of unspoken sexual obsession, middle-class hypocrisy and the crushing burden of guilty secrets. It also contains some of his wittiest portraits of pomp and vanity. Fans of the book will look in vain for more than vague resemblances in the amiable musical version that opened on Broadway last week. Composer- Author Rupert Holmes has framed Drood within a Victorian music-hall pastiche, and the actors play both Dickens' characters and the rowdy, self...