Word: pomp
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...pomp and circumstance that surrounded Queen Elizabeth's marriage to the Duke of Edinburgh would have greatly pleased her distant ancestor, Charles I, who insisted that "a subject and a sovereign are clean different things." But when the Queen and Prince Philip celebrate their silver wedding anniversary this week, Charles may be twitching in his burial vault at Windsor Castle. As one part of the celebration, Elizabeth has invited to a commemorative service in Westminster Abbey 100 couples from round the realm whose only connection with royalty is that they share Her Majesty's wedding date...
...delegates from six Common Market countries and the three that will join them in January will gather for a summit meeting at Paris' Hotel Majestic this week with a conspicuous lack of pomp. No parades will march up the Champs-Elysées; no balls will be held at Versailles; there will be nothing to equal the splendor the French lavished within the past year on the visits of Leonid Brezhnev and Queen Elizabeth. Indeed, the only glitter will come from a modest gala in the Elysée Palace's gilt-and-tapestry Salle...
Next month's dedication ceremony of Gund Hall, the Graduate School of Design's new headquarters promises more than just the pomp and page entry usually associated with such affairs. It will also be a reunion for the cast of characters involved in one of Harvard's most complex scenarios...
There was a touch of Teutonic pomp, but the circumstances were markedly different from those of 1936. The colors were cool, breezy pastels, not the strident Nazi red and black; it was Willy Brandt's gemütlich Munich, not Hitler's dark Berlin. With a fanfare of Alpine horns and a gaudy parade of 12,000 athletes from 124 nations, the XX Olympiad opened last week in an 80,000-capacity, acrylic, glass-covered stadium that stands on the site where Neville Chamberlain landed in 1938 to establish "peace in our time...
...Yankees promptly lost three games in a row to Kansas City. But Houk was confident that Sparky, now fully rested, would "pick up as strong as ever." As the season entered its stretch drive, it seemed likely that Yankee Stadium would once again resound to the frequent rendition of Pomp and Circumstance...