Word: bombastics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these themes might have stung the play into fitful life if it were not smothered in rhetoric. Danton inhales moral smog and exhales bombast. Herbert Blau is credited with translating the German; he has assuredly embalmed the English. Thanks to Blau, Robespierre has been given an outward resemblance to Barry Goldwater. This is a political subtlety fully worthy of the mentality that-in a since-deleted program note-linked Lyndon B. Johnson and Mao Tse-tung as fellow tyrants. Thanks to Blau, too, the direction resembles a wind machine blowing actors around like autumn leaves...
...drew cheers from such honored guests as the Red Chinese, Albanian, North Vietnamese and Cuban delegations. And the U.S. (which has granted Indonesia $896 million in aid) observed the occasion with an ambassadorial switch. American Ambassador Howard Palfrey Jones, 66, a seven-year veteran of the Bung's bombast, of whom it has been said, "Sukarno perhaps understood Jones better than Jones understood Sukarno," departed, with U.S.-Indonesian relations at their lowest ebb since 1958-a fact that clearly delighted the Communists...
...Bombast & Scorn. The whole idea was enough to drive Governor George Wallace into paroxysms of rage. He tried appealing for a stay of Judge Johnson's decision, but was turned down flat. He went before the Alabama legislature to rend the air with 20 minutes of bombast; the proposed march, he declared, was Communist-inspired, abetted by a "collectivist press," by "propagandists masquerading as newsmen." He delivered himself of a withering blast against his old Alabama University friend, Judge Johnson, calling him a man who is "hypocritically wearing the robes" of a judge while "presiding over a mock court...
...Bombast aside, however, O'Hara's decision to stop writing short stories for a while seems wise. The Horse Knows the Way (the title has overtones of weariness and self-mockery) is his fourth large collection of short stories in four years. O'Hara's imagination is astonishingly agile, and his view of society and psychology is much broader than it is generally supposed to be. These stories, taken by themselves, have the sting of fresh work by a fine writer. But he has written so many stories that his fresh, vigorous writing is debased...
...designs. Hanoi reacted to the U.S. action with contrived indignation. Peking waited nearly 24 hours, then declared that the U.S. "has gone over the brink of war" and warned that "the debt of blood incurred by the U.S. to the Vietnamese people must be repaid." Despite this bombast, the Red Chinese made no specific commitment of support to their southern neighbors, and U.S. experts could find no scrutable clues as to whether they might launch a new Korea...