Word: pomp
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There was plenty of pomp and cordiality, all part of the now familiar ritual of summitry. Of substance, there was much less to record. Open disharmony was almost unthinkable, leaving little to disturb the elevated camaraderie that dominated three days of meetings as the leaders of the major non-Communist industrialized nations (the U.S., Japan, West Germany, France, Britain, Italy and Canada) gathered last week for their tenth annual economic summit meeting. .The sessions at London's pillared, flag-bedecked Lancaster House were just the kind of success that the host, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, had hoped they...
...only press suite was in the Hotel George V in Paris, about 25 miles away. Something tangible was accomplished: an agreement to change the articles of the International Monetary Fund to accommodate a new economic world of floating exchange rates. Since then, there has been a steady escalation in pomp and politics as successive hosts have tried to use the meetings to serve their political ends...
...android image" of the Secret Service, or how agents switch revolver style when they change clothes from casual (Smith & Wesson Model 10) to formal (Walther PPK), or the press "baying for names and quotes." Unfortunately, the prose that would result would be far more prosaic. The sense of pomp and ceremony and history would be sacrificed. But by taking refuge in an electronic cocoon, those who run the world might be able to travel through it more quickly, quietly and safely...
...most West Germans, no matter what their age, the pomp surrounding the 40th anniversary of the Normandy landings came as a painful reminder that even after 35 years as a democratic country, the Federal Republic is not regarded in quite the same way as other West European nations. The D-day ceremonies posed a dilemma for West Germans. They would have liked to be part of a commemoration, but they could hardly be-and were not-expected to join in the celebration of what was for them a historic defeat. On the other hand, as key members of NATO, they...
...spite of all the pomp and pseudofriendly chitchat, President Reagan's visit shows that what China wants from the West is goods and expertise and the money to pay for them without an alliance against the Soviet Union. The Chinese Communist Party knows that its strength is international Communism, which is centered in the U.S.S.R...