Word: pomp
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With a flourish of the pomp and ceremony that his single-class country paradoxically enjoys, curly-haired Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus Bernadotte was formally installed last week as King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. At 27, the handsome bachelor is Europe's youngest monarch; he succeeds the oldest, his grandfather Gustaf VI Adolf, who had died four days earlier...
...March) to the higher lands at the forest's edge. As the waters rise, the Lozis begin ritualistically imploring their King to move; when the new moon appears, princes and counselors paddle the royal barge carrying the King away from his summer palace. When the water falls, the pomp is repeated...
...course, there were some echoes of past pomp and circumstance. The schedule included the usual royal salutes, reviews of guards and presentations of bouquets. Missing from the schedule were any stops in Quebec, where separatists caused disorders during the royal tour of 1964. However, in a clear message to French-Canadians, the Queen declared: "It is as Queen of Canada that I am here. Queen of Canada and all Canadians, not just one or two ancestral strains...
...private persons, as thinking it reasonable to believe that these in time gave rise to public edifices." So if the temple was a magnified house, a house could look like a temple. No solution could have been more pleasing to Palladio's Italian clients, who enjoyed their pomp; none could have responded better to Palladio's formal bent. The network of ratios between height and width, void and solid, expressed in the façades of Villa Cornaro and Villa Malcontenta, subtly prepares the visitor for the less consciously felt proportions of the rooms within. For there...
...HARVARD and Radcliffe alumni who flocked back to Harvard this week for reunions and the usual commencement pomp and circumstance hardly recognized the Harvard that awaited them. The Harvard of 1973 is a far cry from the Harvard of 1923 or 1948; it is also a far cry from the Harvard of 1969, the year in which the class of 1973 entered...