Word: solemnization
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...great Reflecting Pool. Directly in front of the podium was a huge tiered platform for the instruments of Reagan's true audience: millions of television viewers. As the Marine Corps Band played stirring renditions of Yankee Doodle and The Battle Hymn of the Republic, official guests in solemn procession arrived to take their positions. The Senate strode in with Leader Howard Baker in front, carrying his omnipresent 35-mm camera. Then came Vice President-elect Bush, President Carter, Vice President Mondale and the Justices of the Supreme Court. Finally, to the strains of the U.S. Army's Herald...
...union men who maintain tight security. Five burly railroad workers in their uniforms stand guard at the entrance. The inner door is chained and padlocked. Although the occupiers claim to have about 400 people inside, a first-hand head count put that number at closer to 100. In a solemn mood, the peasants and factory workers sit around chatting idly, reading newspapers, playing cards or chess. At night bedrolls and mattresses are laid out side by side on the floor...
Under a wintry Italian sky, a gray-suited and solemn Lech Walesa, his wife Miroslawa and a 13-member delegation from Solidarity strode across the Vatican's stone-paved Court of San Damaso to the Apostolic Palace. For the occasion, the Swiss Guards had donned their red-plumed metal helmets, an honor usually reserved for visiting heads of state. The helmets attested to the special significance that the Vatican attached to last week's meeting between the leader of Solidarity and his Pope and countryman, John Paul II, formerly Karol Cardinal Wojtyla of Cracow...
...Oncle opens with a close-up of a stoplight-red neon heart blinking ominously as Laborit's solemn, soothing voice intones "A being's only reason for being is being." The following sequence is more than a little dull and, at first, bewildering, as Resnais bombards us with shots of rocks, plants, frogs, and turtles while Laborit tells us that many living things do not need to move to live but that human beings do need to move to live. It seems that Laborit would prefer to have been born a daffodil, as he drones through a monologue that sounds...
...deeper, more solemn reflections on art and life she saved for her diary. In her letters she is determinedly light, at times kittenish; but she gives full play to her quick eye, sharp tongue and mocking sense of social comedy. An unfavorite cousin's face reminds her of a "mandrill's behind." T.S. Eliot's poem Ash Wednesday she greets as "Tom's hard-boiled egg." She describes avoiding an encounter with Ethel Smyth, the doughty, pipe-smoking feminist and composer who became infatuated with her: "I could not face her, though she was passing...