Word: triumphalism
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Never in recent times has a presidential contender of either party earned, wheedled, extorted-and perhaps deserved-such handsome press notices as were flung like roses in Kennedy's triumphal path at Los Angeles last week. The cartoonists were still having trouble capturing their man, though they were trying hard (see cuts). But the big journalistic guns of the convention-the political columnists-all thought they knew Kennedy, and they liked what they saw. Joseph Alsop, who wears gloom like a toga, was very nearly radiant. "The Senator," he wrote, "has a peculiarly effective public personality, with a strong...
Implicit in De Gaulle's tribute to the British version of parliamentarianism was his longstanding contempt for the system as it is practiced in France. But ironically, in the midst of his triumphal visit to Britain, his scorn had brought his popularity at home to its lowest ebb since he took power...
...triumphal comeback for a fourth term as Burma's Premier, roly-poly U Nu put on the saffron robes of a Buddhist monk and retired into a monastery outside Rangoon for four days' silent contemplation. Then, wrapped again in his traditional, pale blue longyi and looking uncommonly mellow for the rough old campaigner he is, U Nu stepped last week before a Parliament in which his Union Party had won a thumping two-thirds majority in last February's elections, and proclaimed: "We are determined not to repeat the mistakes of the past...
...philosophy. Un like most of the other early Christians, Paul was a city sophisticate and always remained one; where the peasant authors of the Gospels took their figures of speech from nature (fishing, sowing, threshing and shepherding), Paul made urban metaphors - games in the stadium, business in the forum, triumphal processions through the city streets...
...Procurator in Caesarea. Paul remained there in prison for two years, finally invoked his right as a Roman citizen to a trial in the capital. And so, after a shipwreck off Malta, the old saint arrived at Rome at last. He was in chains, but it was almost a triumphal entry; Rome's Christian community sent delegations to greet him along the Appian...