Word: bombastics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Samuel Abbott, the director, has had the sense to realize what Mr. Pickett has done to poor old Shakespeare, and he has ordered the rest of the cast to speak as quietly and as naturally as possible. This mutes their bombast well enough--and one can't in all conscience complain about that: there's entirely too much noise in almost every Shakespeare production--but it seems to be of little avail. With the exception of a few actors, like Mr. Abbott himself (who is the languid and ailing King Edward), or Andreas Teuber (a vital Buckingham, and a perfect...
Swoboda wisely chose a first program that was very gratifying to his players, as well as to his listeners. Frescobaldiana revelled in bombast, the Hary Janos Suite, in special effects; and the familiarity of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony easily overcame any distractions which the excellence of the piece might have created. What they attempted, Swoboda and the HRO did with the greatest flair; what the audience now deserves is a program as musically ambitious as, say, last week's Bach Society concert. The forthcoming premiere of Frank Martin's choral work, in Sanders and in Carnegie Hall, indicates that Swoboda...
...child in friendly embrace and the legend "For our children, peace in Algeria." They also plastered the suburb with insulting placards warning French soldiers: "If you do not evacuate by midnight, you will be considered troops of an alien government." It was considered a piece of typical pied-noir bombast, but at dawn European snipers opened up from rooftops on army patrols. An army truck was ordered to halt by 20 uniformed Europeans. Instead, the driver stepped on the accelerator and the Europeans poured a withering fire into the truck-killing a French lieutenant and five army conscripts, wounding twelve...
...Square. With its twenty-five cent minimum charge, Hayes-Bick has in effect dried the well-springs of the Cambridge Beat. Gone are the days of heartfelt gemutlichkeit over a cup of coffee, lasting sometimes 'til gray dawn. This action imperils also that welcome respite from the bombast of the lecture hall; even the non-bohemian, more conventional student will have to consider seriously the financial strain of the between-class coffee break. Waldorf's in its wishy-washy way, has compromised. It has adopted a minimum charge, which begins only after...
These are humble scenes, and Mr. Thompson presents them leisurely and reverently without any trace of bombast or pomposity. Mr. Robert A. Brooks, who staged the Christ Church production, has been as plain in his direction. Against the backdrop of a simple wooden frame set by Patricia Finn, Mr. Brooks has set his elegantly robed characters in effectively static and stylized positions; neither the music nor the singers themselves are bedevilled by necessities of operatic nuances...