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Dancing Girls. For sheer pomp and pageantry, however, no city can light a candle to New York. At dusk, virtually every square foot of street frontage in midtown Manhattan comes alive with winking wreaths, sparkling and mechanized mannequins. For the 20th year, Christmas trees will divide Park Avenue for 62 blocks with a band of light. At Herald Square, Macy's windows add an Eastern accent with some 200 animated figures, ranging from girls dancing in mosques (a practice not allowed by Moslems) to silk-garbed courtiers watching performing jugglers. Across the street its archrival, Gimbel's, counters...
...thank God, Schlesinger is not stifled by the solemnity of the things he is writing about. When he looks for a quotation to illustrate a technical point, it is invariably a humorous one. When something was done without medieval pomp, he is willing to say so. Here, for instance, is Kennedy's search for a Postmaster-General...
Ceremonially wigged and gowned, Speaker of the House Arthur Stumbles eased himself into his heavy chair while his symbolic golden mace was laid on the table in front of him. Thus, making up in pomp what it lacks in representation, Rhodesia's white-dominated Parliament was called to order last week for the first time since Prime Minister Ian Smith seized independence...
Behind the smothering barrier of Vatican pomp and tradition, Pope Paul VI has often seemed a cold, formal and essentially unsympathetic figure - an uncomfortable clerical prisoner of the baroque ecclesiastical past...
Montaigne's very motto-"What Do I Know?"-appeals to these inquiring times. His convictions have a contemporary ring. "How many condemna tions have I seen," he wrote, "more criminal than the crime!" He could ridicule pomp ("On the loftiest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our own rump"), pedants ("Won't they try to square the circle while perched on their wives?") and bigotry ("If she is a whore, must she also necessarily have bad breath?"). He had a psychiatrist's understanding of the mind: "Alas, poor man! You are miserable enough...