Word: bombastics
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...trooper was on the tide, my boys, or when Tommy Atkins returned from defending dominion over palm and pine, or simply when the poor little street-bred people clustered around the bandstand at Brighton, Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance must ring out. Yet for all its imperial bombast, Elgar's best known composition also conveyed a sort of sweet innocence; compared to some of the marches it was soon to contend with-Communism's booming International or Nazi Germany's gutter hymn, the Horst Wessel Song-it lacked steel. It was really a recessional...
...neither looked nor dressed like an artist. It was this pompous Elgar who turned out the first Pomp and Circumstance march (its trio is also known as "Land of Hope and Glory"), along with The Crown of India, The Banner of St. George, Imperial March -all marked by bombast, contrived orchestral climaxes, syrupy sentiment. "I want to write something as typically and thoroughly English as roast beef and beer," Elgar said, and he succeeded...
...only to see it booed off the stage after two performances because of its experimentation with Wagnerian techniques. Intellectually more challenging than Gounod's lovely but un-Faustian version, more dramatic than Berlioz' rambling opéra de concert, it suffers from a tendency to bombast. In this cut version the work gets a rather tame performance, but it still bears the mark of a fine musical-literary mind and is well worth the listening...
Boston Symphony, scarcely letting us recover from last week's magnificent bombast, will pit two Englishmen--Britten and Walton--against a German, Beethoven, who has written a Pastoral Symphony. Gregor Piatigorsky, cello soloist. At 2:15 p.m. today, 8:30 p.m. tomorrow...
Running David Lawrence's item immediately following Murray Kempton's was extremely efficacious. Kempton's article, which is typical of the absurd and insubstantial material utilized as verbal bombast against Nixon, adequately proves Lawrence's contention [that the renomination of Nixon was a vindication of the Vice President over the long "whispering campaign about his lack of integrity"]. The Democrats, not unlike the Communist propagandists in their techniques of unfactual and slanderous invective against Nixon, have yet to provide evidence from which they can justify the vilification of the Vice President...