Word: pomp
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...gate in Yankee Stadium's right-centerfield fence swings open and a Datsun painted in pinstripes taxis a relief pitcher toward the diamond. Eyes strain to see who is inside the car, voices murmur, hopes rise. The car stops, the stadium organist sweeps into the regal strains of Pomp and Circumstance, and the crowd exults. Out steps Albert Walter ("Sparky") Lyle. He sheds his warmup jacket with measured nonchalance and strides toward the pitcher's mound, one cheek distended by chewing tobacco. A few practice throws, a couple of spits, and Sparky is once again ready...
...guessed that this was a department in which the First Lady was going to stop. When he returned later with Pat and her entourage, Schecter positioned himself at the pre-selected spot and was able to hold his vantage point. All three correspondents divided their time between the pomp and color of the visit on one hand and the substance of the talks on the other. To gain insight into what was passing between U.S. and Russian leaders behind firmly closed floors, the trio tapped sources among American and Soviet officials and some not-so-official informants as well...
...particular document signed and sealed with such pomp was the most notable in a series of agreements that the President brings back from the Soviet Union this week: the long-expected undertaking to limit nuclear weapons, not an end to the costly arms race but still a sign of hope and good sense. Other, lesser agreements had come with similar ceremony almost every day. It had all been stage-managed carefully and the accords had been worked on for months or even years. Theoretically, they could have been revealed to the world without the Kremlin spectacular...
Amid all the pomp at Sapporo last week, one troubling circumstance lingered on: the usual controversy over "shamateurism." Once again Avery Brundage, the crusty old president of the International Olympic Committee, railed against the evils of commercialism. And once more the Federation Internationale de Ski (F.I.S.) was unimpressed. This time, though, Brundage seemed more intent than ever on disqualifying most of the world's top skiers for violating the I.O.C. rule against endorsing equipment. Armed with a stack of incriminating ads, he thundered: "When the skiers allow their photographs or their names to be used to promote ski products...
...suggests that there is such a thing as a surfeit of language. In a parable about Shakespeare, he writes that the dramatist, fired with the need to fill his own emptiness of spirit, created a rich panoply of kings, villains and lovers. In time, he wearied of all the pomp and splendor and abruptly returned to a plainer reality. Aged and blind, Borges may have sought a similar respite. The voice he now calls his own is actually one of many he has improvised over the years and not his most inspiring. Yet it speaks with a haunting humanity...