Word: blustering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...think Arthur Pellman played Northumberland correctly. He blusters, and though early may certainly bluster, Northumberland is a very hard man. A man of such inflexible will would not sputter as Pellman does, he would speak distinctly. Of course, Barstow has decided to have all the North-country lords speak with a heavy accent, and if the bluster is part of the brogue, it may not be Pellman's fault...
...always read well; but, again as elsewhere, a really fine player can make them convincing. Here, James Earl Jones is better than fine; he is nothing short of magnificent as he moves, drawing on his majestic pipe-organ of a voice and his resonant belly-laugh, from bluster and swagger through anxiety and fright to exhaustion and eclipse. (The role, by the way, bears fruitful comparison with that of Macbeth...
...select workers -and then a ration of only three-quarters of a pound per week. Even coal and steel production, of which Hanoi was once so proud, is lagging. And though Ho Chi Minh continues to direct and aid the subversive war against South Viet Nam, for all his bluster he seems nervous about the possibility of stepped-up U.S. support of Saigon-or the war's being carried to his own country...
...despite his demands for realism and his caustic description of "the problem," Malcolm began to bluster when he sought answers. Arguing that Negro voting power is responsible for placing the present administration in office, he urged Negroes to apply pressure, forgetting an earlier statement that "politics couldn't solve anything...
...doubt the recent hints from Washington about extending the war in South Vietnam to North Vietnamese territory are just so much bluster, but even so they are ill-advised. They encourage the view that the problems in Vietnam are military, and can be solved by the application of more force, when the entire American experience in Vietnam undercuts this theory. With the most modern equipment and the most professional advisers in the world the South Vietnamese have been losing badly. What is needed is not more helicopters, bu the realization that the United States has bungled seriously in south Vietnam...