The death, this weekend, of Geraldine Ferraro, presented an occasion to look back at the 1984 race; one sometimes forgets about Gary Hart.
Justice Antonin Scalia's death last month presented the occasion to select the 118th Supreme Court justice.
For supporters (such as myself) of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, Friday presented another occasion to make excuses.
However, the opponents may obligingly issue a warning, and this was heeded on the present occasion.
It is a vehicle of status aspiration and competition, an ever-present occasion for snobbery, one-upmanship and social aggression.
Rosenberg has been out of intellectual fashion for so long that his dashing eloquence may come as a glad shock, to many, on the present occasion.
In doing this, on the present occasion, we find this tribunal invested with appellate jurisdiction in all cases arising under the constitution and laws of the United States.
For the present occasion he is given the whole fifth floor (apart from the mezzanine level) for a survey that stretches from youthful drawings to his textbook paintings of buildings and rooms carved from slabs of light.
(Sony Classical has just reissued the revered Leonard Bernstein recordings of the symphonies, with the Philharmonic performing all but the Eighth, on 12 CDs in partnership with Carnegie Hall to commemorate the present occasion).
Now to enumerate and classify accurately the usual subjects of public business, and further to frame, as far as possible, true definitions of them is a task which we must not attempt on the present occasion.
(In the nineteen-sixties, the critic Clement Greenberg, acting as the executor of the estate of David Smith, removed paint from some of the great sculptor's abstract works, thinking thereby to improve them — a scandal germane to the present occasion, though not cited).
