Word: bombastics
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Despite Liszt's formidable reputation, the Faust Symphony, based on Goethe's poem, has never really entered the repertoire. Its high quotient of bombast, so attractive to the romantics, has fallen out of favor today, and its length (more than 70 minutes) can seem excessive. Still, Liszt's symphony, whose three movements depict Faust, Gretchen and Mephistopheles, ought to rate high, not only for its often startling pictorialism, but for its technical skill as well. Conlon and his forces give it a vibrant reading...
...unpaid and unacknowledged editor of the celebrated Westminster Review, she enters into fierce arguments about political and religious subjects. Her article "Silly Novels by Lady Novelists" excoriates authors who mistake "vagueness for depth, bombast for eloquence, and affectation for originality." Even after it becomes known in 1859 that George Eliot is actually a woman, she is never accused of similar foolishness. For the rest of her life she is regarded as the formidable equal of such eminent Victorians as Charles Dickens and Herbert Spencer...
...offensive guard at Harvard in the 1960s.) Kim Stanley (who played Maggie in the 1958 London production of Cat) makes Big Mama a more sympathetically human figure than one has a right to expect. Only Rip Torn, as Big Daddy, seems miscast. He has the bluster but not the bombast of the aging tycoon, and his Southern accent contains a trace of irony that seems to emanate from the actor, not the character. This is a Medium-Size Daddy at best. Still, the play, and Lange, tower above the rest of an arid summer's TV offerings. -By Richard...
...range missiles in Europe, if the Soviet Union proposed such a move. The next day, however, Richard Burt, the Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, dampened hopes by saying that the U.S. had no plans for either the "tradeoff" or the arms-talk merger. Soviet rhetoric also mixed bombast and hints of accommodation...
...charms, in the old, musical, intransitive form of the verb. As a journalist and novelist, she has sought a coherent melody in the dissonances and sprung rhythms of her times. Her collection of essays Toward a Radical Middle (1970) presented a critical intelligence unde-flected by the push and bombast of public events. At a noisy period in the country's history, Adler firmly registered the difficulty, high cost and fragility of progress, or, as she put it, "how much has been gained, how far there is to go, and what there is to lose...