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Still, the occasion for the Pope's visit -the 39th International Eucharistic Congress-was oddly anachronistic in a day when a large and militant part of the Roman Catholic Church is turning away from pomp and tradition. The Eucharistic Congress, conceived in the late 19th century by a devout French grande dame, Marie Marthe Tamisier, is a liturgical spectacular that reaffirms the otherworldly glories of the faith. The event particularly venerates the Eucharist, the ritual in which, according to traditional Catholic doctrine, bread and wine are transubstantiated into the body and blood of Christ. With its emphasis on ceremony...
...terms of character, however, Shakespeare's interest--and ours--centers on Richard himself, who emerges as a portrait of fantastic subtlety and complexity. Richard is bright, sensitive, and articulate; he is also prodigal, self-indulgent, and histrionic. The actual coronation of the historical Richard was unprecedented in pomp and splendor and set the pace for the king's 22-year reign. As Shakespeare limns him, Richard is, further, an ideal case study of what modern psychiatry knows as a manic-depressive...
...third branch of the U.S. Government is intimate, unhurried and arcane, almost totally devoid of pomp or visible drama. Yet the Supreme Court's decisions affect every American, living and unborn. And it is the final, irrevocable judge of every President and Congress. Thus last week, when Lyndon Johnson nominated Associate Justice Abe Fortas to be the 15th Chief Justice of the United States, his selection was almost as significant as the election of a new President in November. A President cannot be elected more than twice. A Chief Justice can remain at the head of the world's most...
Last week Lurleen Burns Wallace, 41, died in her sleep. She had served 16 months as her husband's standin, executing orders that he dictated from a desk across the hallway. She was buried in Montgomery amid military pomp, while a tearful Wallace interrupted his demagogic third-party campaign to mourn. From her deathbed, Lurleen had urged him to keep up his quest for the presidency, though public life as Governor's lady and then as the nation's only lady Governor was never to her taste. "Politics," she once recalled, "was something Daddy discussed...
...Class Committee very strongly put across the point that they felt this was a special year," Kinasewich said. "They didn't feel they wanted to carry on with a normal pomp and circumstance program...