Word: bombastes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thoreau's flute, Ives explained. The flute's been silent for the first three movements, and the tune comes in slowly and quietly, without preparation or roots, out of the blue. The sonata ends without a resolution. It is as though the old hymns couldn't stand against the bombast of fate knocking on the door. It is as though Ives had admitted that his father's world was gone, and that he had not yet tested newer, more specific radicalisms that might still work in the new world...
...desert island with (barring John Kenneth Galbraith) one of the pretentious hacks and quacks who voted for one another as intellectual elitists in the poll taken by Sociologist Charles Kadushin. What else might be expected when the criterion for determining intellect was publication in the New York Review of Bombast or the Prejudice Review...
...manic bombast and sheer tactlessness, none of the world's leaders can compete with the big mouth of Uganda's General Idi ("Big Daddy") Amin Dada. Were it not for his dismal record as a capricious dictator-in addition to expelling 42,000 noncitizen Asians from Uganda, he has crippled the country's economy in the 32 months since his successful coup-Big Daddy's brand of verbal buckshot might be considered amusing. As it is, his off-the-cuff oratory mostly reflects his instability and ignorance. A sampling of the kind of rhetoric that...
...much for the bombast of one viewer who for ten years has hated to see this medium wasted. Maybe next week there will be some programs to talk about...
Still, Cyrano's motto- "I have decided to excel in everything"-is more than mere bombast. His poetry is a celebration of the spirit. He is the enemy of cowardice, weakness, and stupidity. His white plume flies unsullied to the romantic-tragic end, although you must ask if it was worth his self sacrifice and emotional blindness...