Word: bumptiousness
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Last week, in the Soviet monthly Novy Mir, the Kremlin devised the subtlest ploy yet to put the bumptious Chinese back in their ideological place. Russia, too, wrote Veteran Soviet Economist Stanislav Strumilin, 83, plans to have agricultural communes-but not until 1980-85. And unlike Red China's jampacked, hardscrabble farms (see above), Russia's communes would be proletarian pleasure palaces whose 2,400 inhabitants would enjoy every amenity from lavish restaurants to beauty parlors for the ladies. Then, driving Nikita's stiletto deep into Mao's back, Economist Strumilin blandly opined: "Of course, such...
...novel's end. the violent past has caught up with the placid present. The Indians are soon corrupted by the liquor that Jerrod's father illegally sells them. Civilization intrudes in other ways; a hard-boiled woman reporter publicizes Teawhit, drawing crowds of bumptious tourists, and con men stage a carnival and a rodeo-cheap shows that fake what once was real and vital. In the first of a series of almost ceremonial deaths, one Indian rams his model T into an imitation totem pole. Little Buckety dies when he falls off a bronco at the rodeo. Author...
...last week there was emphatic evidence that the soft line does not suit aggressive, bumptious Red China, either in theory or practice. In Peking, Mao Tse-tung's editorialists took advantage of the Lenin celebration to take issue with Khrushchev. With the approaching summit meeting obviously in view, newspapers chorused that coexistence with capitalism is "impossible" for good Leninists. "The imperialist system will not crumble by itself," said the authoritative journal Red Flag. "It will be pushed over by the proletarian revolution...
Stanley Holloway, 69, bumptious cockney papa of My Fair Lady who pleaded memorably with his friends to get him to the church on time, got to Buckingham Palace on time to receive the Order of the British Empire from Prince Philip for his many years of distinction in the theater...
Died. Paul Douglas, 52, sometime professional football player and radio announcer turned actor, who vaulted to Hollywood stardom (A Letter to Three Wives, Executive Suite) through his Broadway portrayal of the bumptious racketeer in Born Yesterday; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...