And so Pericles, at that time, more than at any other, let loose the reins to the people, and made his policy subservient to their pleasure, contriving continually to have some great public show or solemnity, some banquet, or some procession or other in the town to please them, coaxing his countrymen like children with such delights and pleasures as were not, however, unedifying.
Round and round the gallery they go, like figures from some medieval procession.
"Around election time, the boy's father used to dress him up in fancy costume and make him ride on floats in political parades or pound along in some torchlight procession getting sparks in his hair.
But I wanted there to be a warrior quality to these guys, almost more like we're watching them go through the motions of some royal procession.
In the city, which witnesses such processions daily, some people barely looked up.
The yunluo was part of Chinese ensembles from the early 14th century, and by the 19th century it was often used in wedding or funeral processions and some Daoist and Buddhist ceremonies.
The Lutheran Church in some localities has retained the ancient rogation processions during the week before Whitsunday and, in some cases, during the month of May.
According to some Muslim mourners, the procession had walked some six miles, gathering more people, when members of the Central Police force opened fire.
About 6,000 mourners marched in the funeral procession, some chanting "revenge," the Reuters new service reported.
