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Krock's orotund prose, the exclusive interview with President Truman appeared in the New York Times (see PRESS...
...seemed to the 40 that it took Harvard's orotund Astronomer Harlow Shapley hours to get to the point. First he had to make a little speech, then announce the names of the eight runners-up, make them each take a bow. Finally the two winning names shot out. First prize: Dwight Taylor. Second: studious, pretty 16-year-old Caroline Stuart Littlejohn of Oklahoma City...
...Press Laughed. Committee members began to question him. What was the difference, New York's orotund Sol Bloom wanted to know, between the Wallace line and the Communist line on ERP? Replied Henry stiffly: "I am not familiar with the Communist approach. I am not prepared to discuss it. I don't know what the Communist objection is. I don't follow the Communist literature." South Dakota's Karl Mundt asked him if he thought Russia was meddling in European affairs. No one could say for sure, Wallace replied, because it was "impossible...
Second Thoughts. In effect, Sir Hartley had committed the U.S. to disclose information on its stockpile of A-bombs and fissionable material as soon as the contemplated commission could be set up. All this seemed to fly right over Senator Connally's head, for the orotund Texan made no relevant comment. Next day, however, there was a great...
Over the years, most of the Hawthorne irony has worn thin; the Hawthorne moralizing and allegorizing now have the force of a Sunday school sermon; the famed Hawthorne style, once so eloquent and orotund, now seems merely archaic and rhetorical ("My father, wherefore didst thou inflict this miserable doom upon thy child?"). But the dark Hawthorne themes of sin and retribution are still absorbing, and more absorbing yet is the mystery of the obsessed, lonely New Englander turning them over & over in his mind...