Its protagonist, Captain Ahab, represents a return to what Melville called (defending Ahab's status as tragic hero) a "mighty pageant creature, formed for noble tragedies," whose "ponderous heart," "globular brain," and "nervous lofty language" prove that even an old Nantucket sea captain can take his place with kings and princes of the ancient drama.
The unseemly spectacle led Mr. Horn to lament: "The concept of the beauty pageant in some form is ingrained in the American psyche.
Intellectual audacity and chaotic idiocy combine in Stoppard's particular showy farce form — a pageant of contradiction that broadcasts his stoicism and provides heat in a cooling universe.
The early 20th century saw a revival of a "pure" form of pageant (one that is first and foremost historical drama), most notably in the works of Louis N. Parker.
The story takes place in the months leading up to the pageant -- the pageant dictates the form of the narrative just as it dictates the lives of the girls living in anticipation of it.
Their pageant is an inherently democratic art form, said Simon Morrison, assistant professor of music at Princeton University.
At the pageant's climax, as per the form book, Dr Jackson was crowned Ms Senior California 2014.
Instead of dodging the usual darts, this year the pageant is dodging bullets in the form of televised sports events.
Originally, Disney hired Alex Timbers, a young director he was born in 1978 who first came to the attention of New York theatre cognoscenti, in his early twenties, with a satire of Scientology, in the form of a holiday pageant enacted by children.
In the Boston pageant of 1910, the figure of "America" received members of different ethnic immigrant groups, who then formed one community onstage.
