Word: bombast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manifesto that appeared in Mexico City in 1961 seemed like the usual bombast from angry young painters out to attract as much attention as they could. In big blue capital letters, it blasted just about everything sacred to the Mexican art world. Damned as academismo were slavish and parochial imitations of Diego Rivera's once-revolutionary social realism. Damned as dehumanized decoration were equally slavish imitations of the abstract styles imported from other lands. "We strive," said the manifesto writers, "for an art that communicates in the clearest and most direct way possible our commitment...
Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller, A Private Correspondence. Exchanges full of bombast, flattery and genuine admiration between two writers who are probably only near geniuses, despite what they tell each other...
...Lowdown. In the early letters, the bombast is most conspicuous. "Skoal to the stanchless flux," young Durrell ends one letter. ''Shakespeare lack'd art" and "wrote from the waist down," he proclaims. Soon, however, it can be learned that Durrell is on to his avuncular admirer. Durrell exhorts Miller to read the Elizabethans for his own good, and Miller in turn-partly because he is writing a 1,000-page exegesis on Hamlet-is humbly asking Durrell for "the lowdown on Hamlet ... I can't bring myself to read the damned thing. But I am very...
...letters might have been just an exchange of bombast between a couple of literary bums but for the fact that each man is more than a bit right about the other. Each is touched by genius, each sees literature as a personal manifesto against a hostile world. They are not merely correspondents but confederates...
...Cuba crisis stayed at the top of the world's agenda. Restless and annoyed after days of Russian doubletalk and Castro bombast. President Kennedy held a long meeting with the National Security Council, called the Joint Chiefs of Staff into session. Messages sped back and forth between Washington and Moscow-but outside the innermost circles of the U.S. and Soviet governments, no one knew what John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev were saying, and perhaps promising, to each other...