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Wearing a dark business suit beneath his pomp-and-circumstantial ermine-trimmed scarlet robes, Prince Charles last week took his seat in the House of Lords. After swearing allegiance to both his mother and himself ("Queen Elizabeth, her heirs and successors"), the prince self-consciously donned the floppy black Cap of Maintenance. Then, like any mere peer, Charles retreated backstage and bummed a cigarette...
...embassy. The sessions were marked by an encouraging absence of polemics and posturing. Each side seemed earnest and genuinely eager to get down to the essentials of the difficult and long bargaining that was bound to precede an arms agreement. Unlike most international conferences that meet amid splendor and pomp, the arms talks were held in modest, almost cramped surroundings. In order to accommodate a conference table, a glass partition had been ripped out between two offices in the U.S. embassy. Even so, the room was hardly large enough to hold the negotiators and translators...
...part, I go to the South.'" It was an epic moment, one of the many, in fact, that The Royal Hunt of the Sun shamelessly overlooks in favor of pop-psych melodramatics. A pity, too, because when this Freudian version of the conquest of Peru concentrates on the pomp and circumstance traditional to movie spectaculars, it is a lot of cornball...
...presidential commission. Then Afrifa administered the oath of office to Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia, the new Premier, impetuously raising Busia's arm in a fighter's victory gesture. Except for that forgivable breach of decorum, Ghana ushered in the second republic in its brief history with pomp and pageantry worthy of its former British rulers...
...spectrum of grandeur and dissent was the commencement at New York City's Herbert H. Lehman College, a newly constituted, tuition-free urban college in The Bronx, which celebrated its first graduation with a minimum of pomp. Lehman was awarding 1,281 baccalaureates, many of them to children of families only one or two generations in the U.S. Quietly, pridefully, parents and relatives took their places on folding chairs on the broad lawn, while a Berlioz march thundered from loudspeakers. Some women wore mink stoles; others were in frantically color-splashed pants suits. Folded Yiddish newspapers protruded from...