Word: bombastic
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...made some self-effacing comments: "It's a good thing I'm running for President and not in a beauty contest." This was not Lyndon Johnson; Nixon would not make photographers take his "good" profile. More important, a semi-believable note of humility also began to creep into the bombast of Nixon's "united party--we're going to win" oratory...
...bombast, of course, was still there. "All the Republican leaders--Lindsay and Rockefeller and Romney and Percy--are all behind us, and we know we're going to win." The predictions of national victory too. But there were other notes. "We know that many people are voting against in this election. We don't want that. There's too much hate, and it shouldn't be vented in an election. We want people to vote...
Take away the hawkish bombast, and Pell might have a point--if there really were a movement here to drive ROTC from the campus. But the HUC, HPC, and SFAC, the three student organizations at work on the issue, seem unlikely to recommend that the University sever all relations with ROTC. It would be hard to argue that the student who wants to join an officer's training program should not be allowed to do so. But it is just as indefensible to maintain, as Col. Pell by implication does, that Harvard should be in the business of steering...
Southern Drawl. Wallace's discomfort was understandable. He knew that Barry Goldwater lost countless votes in 1964 because he was considered a bomb rattler. Though he is all bluster and bombast on domestic issues and a 100% hawk on Viet Nam, he has barred nuclear weapons in Viet Nam. At the end of LeMay's press conference, Wallace jumped on reporters for even raising the matter, declaring that "General LeMay hasn't said anything about the use of nuclear weapons...
...decrepit Teatro degli Animosi (Theater of the Courageous) in the Italian town of Carrara for bombs. Only after they had given the all clear did the Third International Congress of Anarchist Federations call itself to order-of a sort. As it turned out, there was more than enough verbal bombast to compensate for the lack of real bombs...