Word: pomp
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Prince Charles, in a clear, composed voice, read the lesson, as Britain last week paid final homage to Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Admiral of the Fleet and the beloved "Uncle Dickie" to the royal family. It was a splendorous funeral that rivaled in pomp and pageantry the state funerals of Sir Winston Churchill in 1965 and the Duke of Wellington in 1852. With his flair for spectacle, Lord Mountbatten had begun to plan the ceremonies in 1976, well aware that as Queen Victoria's last living great grandson, he was a unique link to the glorious days of empire...
...classics, philosophy and ancient history. He did not decide on a clerical career until his final year. During his years as a chaplain and tutor at Cambridge, he married Rosalind ("Lindy") Turner, an accomplished classical pianist known for spirited opinions ("I can't bear a lot of religious pomp and circumstance"). They have two children. Among Runcie's hobbies: breeding prize pigs...
...pageant and the ensuing mix-up seemed a fitting preview of the 22nd Olympiad, displaying, as one visiting U S sportswnter unkindly put it, "the Russian proclivity for excelling at pomp and fouling up circumstance." Spartakiad's first week did produce scores of minor organizational glitches that need to be ironed before next year. But to their credit the Soviets seemed obsessively determined to correct their mistakes and make the most impressive Olympiad yet. Spartakiad features 10,000 Soviet athletes, sifted from nearly 100 million entrants over two years of eliminations and-for the first time-2,500 foreign...
...confront the South Africa issue openly and forcefully. Meanwhile, the often crude and threatening efforts of Kennedy School administrators to deter the protestors from having their say--including their insistence that the demonstrators violated an "agreement" that never existed--reflects a frame of mind that values the forms of pomp and ceremony over the substance of debate about meaningful issues. We sincerely hope that this reluctance to deal with reality will not continue to plague the school's administration...
...arriving in Israel, the President had to attend to the pomp and ceremonies that take up so much of a state visit before he could begin his serious talks. He was welcomed by Begin and President Navon in a glare of floodlights at Ben-Gurion Airport as a 21-gun salute boomed through the night. Then the presidential motorcade rolled into Jerusalem where Mayor Teddy Kollek offered him bread and wine, an honor once reserved for Jewish kings returning from battle. According to Kollek this was "the most important visit to Jerusalem