Word: bombastics
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Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 (Dimitri Mitropoulos, pianist, conducting the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra of Philadelphia; Columbia, 1 side LP). The gifted Mitropoulos gives himself a successful double workout with this combination of beauty and bombast. Recording: good...
Douglas MacArthur spoke with a native eloquence that the nation had not heard in years, without bombast or gesture. The resonant voice sometimes rasped, some times sank almost to a whisper, but never rose from a low, confident pitch...
...sometimes loves words too well: The Lady shows a streak of the clever undergraduate, the babbling drunk; it plays practical jokes on the slopes of Parnassus. Like much poetry today, it turns abruptly colloquial, with calculated bathos; at other times it bellies out with defiant bombast...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (the NBC Symphony, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 2 sides LP). Toscanini's music seems to grow leaner with the years. In this new performance, he has scalpeled away pounds of the bombast with which the "Eroica" is too often fattened out; what remains is clear, bone-clean, but still well-muscled. Recording: excellent...
...Bombs & Bombast. The campaign began just before the monsoon. Dhoti-clad Calcuttans left their steaming houses, clustered in the streets to drink lime squash, chew pan (made from the betel nut), and talk politics until tempers gave way and fists flew. Hoodlum gangs raced through the city, pasting posters, tearing down opposition signs, breaking up each other's soapbox meetings with shoes, brickbats, incendiary oil bombs, bursting bottles of nitric acid. A city ordinance banned loudspeakers, so electioneers shouted instead through megaphones, day & night...