Word: bombastes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that he is 90, let's stop overrating Picasso. I have found most Picasso exhibitions dreary and uninteresting. I have stood for half an hour in front of Guernica and it was still only cheap bombast...
...Legend. Such bombast is familiar because Picasso has not been a subject of serious controversy for at least 35 years. The man has become a monument, rising from a reflecting pool of undiluted praise. For Picasso is not merely the most famous artist alive. He is the most famous artist that ever lived; more people have heard of him than ever heard the names, let alone saw the work, of Michelangelo, Rembrandt or Cezanne while they were alive. His audience is incalculable. By now, it must run into hundreds of millions-including, admittedly, the many people who have heard...
...Such bombast raises a problem inherent in all historical novelizing. If Garrett had written a conventional biography of Raleigh-as he is certainly equipped to do-he would have marshaled evidence to support opinions, scrupulously noted where assumption bridged fact and mentioned in rebuttal any important contrary theories. The reader would have been left with a strongly argued view of Raleigh. That is quite different from what is to be found in Death of the Fox. The reader who lacks the specialist's knowledge necessary to see the seams between fact and assumption is robbed of the uncertain historical...
Despite the bombast and hostility that have characterized relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the past decade, a remarkably friendly and fruitful exchange has been quietly going on between scientists of the two nations. Glenn Seaborg, the retiring chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, has now revealed how the scientists have not only grown to trust each other, but have also shared detailed information about their countries nuclear capacity-almost to the last atom...
Much of labor's bombast had been for rhetorical effect, as well as to set up a bargaining position. Under Meany's wily guidance, the war of words yielded to a major change in strategy. Although many union leaders, including Meany, originally threatened to fight the 90-day freeze, they soon backed away from that stand. For one thing, a court test of the ban on wage raises negotiated prior to the presidential freeze?the provision that unions dislike most?might well take longer than 90 days. A more embarrassing reason for the retreat was the absence...