Word: bombastical
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...eloquence rarely heard in a political campaign: "We have become guardians of a civilization built in pain, in anguish and in heroic hope ... If we creak, the world will groan. If we slip, the world will fall. But if we use our right of initiative and of decision without bombast or bluster, if we use it with clear heads and steady nerves, we shall rise in strength and grow in majesty and the world will rise and grow with...
Beneath the bombast was an inborn genius for divining and whetting the public's curiosity ("once having made the readers talk, you can soon tell them what to say"). He warned his editors that he did not "believe in hobnobbing with politicians," demanded that the paper be independent and make up its own mind. When circulation gains were slow, Northcliffe slashed the price from threepence to a penny, overnight tripled sales. "I hear that the Old Lady of Printing House Square," he chortled, "gathered up her skirts and shrieked as at the sight of a man under...
Berlioz: The Childhood of Christ (soloists of the Paris Opera, the Raymond St. Paul Chorus, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Andre Cluytens conducting; Vox, 4 sides LP). This interesting and exciting work reveals another facet of the ebullient Berlioz-tenderness without bombast. Performance: good. Recording: fair...
...week's end, Perón got around to making his first campaign speech. It was a twelve-minute radio talk, apparently broadcast from a recording. Hurriedly listing the benefits of his rule, Perón sounded weary, and without his usual fire and bombast. He said that he would make three more talks before election...
...Leaders. Durable, level-headed Konrad Adenauer is undoubtedly the best available Chancellor for the Germans. To a people weary of bombast, Adenauer makes calm speeches; to a people fearful of the state, he gives unobtrusive administration. His chief stock in trade is still his shrewd knack for compromise. Rather than have the workers grow restive, Adenauer, the conservative Christian-Democrat, has given trade unions more responsibility than they ever had in Germany. In order to keep former soldiers from deserting to the radical Right, Adenauer the antimilitarist courteously receives influential former generals...