Word: blusterer
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Relaxed Atmosphere. Part of the Soviet bluster obviously is intended for consumption in Eastern Europe, where rantings against West Germany may help divert attention from the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia. But the Soviets undoubtedly hope to accomplish more than that. In their view, West Germany represents the chief threat to the status quo in Eastern Europe, and behind much of the Soviet hostility lies the success of West Germany's Ostpolitik. Until two years ago, the West German government refused to have any political dealings with the Communist countries in Eastern Europe, a rigid cold war stance that suited...
Sometimes there is more menace than reality to the Panthers' bloodthirsty bluster. Leaders justifiably claim that they helped cool the summer by arguing against riots that pit blacks against an overwhelming white force. Yet they cry for an ultimate bloody upheaval at some future time when blacks will have a tactical advantage. A heavy majority of Negroes reject this sort of thing as ridiculous mumbo jumbo. But many moderates are too intimidated by the Panthers to speak out, and quite a few like the way they stand up to white authority and foster black pride. But unless the white...
...years on the air, Virginia Graham has brought on girls of such luster and bluster as Ilka Chase, Pearl Buck, Betsy Palmer, Marya Mannes, Cornelia Otis Skinner and Hermione Gingold - all of whom have variously contributed to Girl Talk's success as the brightest female panel discussion in television. Last week, at the urging of her ABC packagers ("They thought the show needed a little goosing-up"), Virginia introduced her first male panelist, David Merrick. The show bombed (Merrick was positively fatuous), and at its close, Virginia asked for a mail-in referendum on further gentlemen callers...
...give up a valuable weekend. The lost weekend really starts off when Norman, very much in his bourbon cups at a fund-raising evening in a theater, urinates on the floor of a darkened men's room. He then goes on to bully his fellow speakers with arrogant bluster and to bawdy his audience with testy obscenity-for which he offers a spirited defense. He uses it to wake up people, he claims. Besides, he discovered in the Army that it is the common man's humor and, in a way, the voice of his history ("the truth...
...crackdown on drug use by hippies--if it is necessary, and if that is what the Mayor is really concerned about--would be better served by a lot less bluster and a good more sober investigation of the extent of the problem...