Word: pomp
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Mostly I want to recall how all the pomp and circumstance afforded alumni affects the people still working toward that distinction. When I'm marching past John Harvard in the alumni procession, I hope I think about some senior's brother or grandmother who isn't at Commencement because there aren't enough hotel rooms and seats...
Seniors Bruce Weller and Gaylord Lyman don't want to attend their Commencement. It's not an aversion to pomp and ceremony, an allergy to mortarboards or a distaste for long speeches or slow marches. Weller and Lyman just want to be in Omaha...
Last weekend's display of good will was more than just a matter of pomp and pandas. Reagan met for serious talks with each of China's current leaders: de facto Ruler Deng Xiaoping, Premier Zhao Ziyang, Party Leader Hu Yaobang and President Li Xiannian. The Chinese mentioned Taiwan again and again, but in measured tones; ultimatums were not delivered. Deng, while forswearing any explicit alliance with Washington, made it clear over the course of his 2½ hours with Reagan on Saturday that he shares the American President's fundamental distrust of the Soviets. Several trade...
From the start, this band had a sound recklessness. was both brash and melodic. The Pretenders burned through the pomp and pose that had crusted over the British punk movement by 1980. Other bands, similarly adept and not so heavily brushed by fate, disintegrated. The Pretenders, to everyone's astonishment, including their own, turned out to be survivors. There are two new members now: Lead Guitarist Robbie Mclntosh and Bass Player Malcolm Foster. The two veterans, Hynde and Drummer Martin Chambers, have made a separate peace with the past by putting a stake in the future. Hynde...
...speeches have been greeted with typical Harvard pomp and circumstance...