Word: pompous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...furor El Topo is neither a cathartic masterpiece, as its disciples believe, nor a con job, and Jodorowsky is neither messiah nor mountebank. There are scenes of brilliance in El Topo, followed by sequences of unwieldy pretension. The film is by turns comic and profound, hysterical and pompous, fully complex enough to deserve more than a simple...
...give SJP, and all groups about whom we write, fair and complete coverage. We may succeed more at some times than at others; no newspaper can claim total objectivity. On the whole, we are proud of our coverage of SJP, and we do not propose to suffer silently a pompous lecture by Pasztor. SJP is the group which requested that Students for a Democratic Society, the Progressive Labor Party, and the Radcliffe-Harvard Liberation Alliance be banned from using University facilities because of the role played by some of their members in the disruption of the Teach...
...between the new quarterly and Foreign Affairs are shared by most of the Foreign Policy editorial board, and summarized by James C. Thomson, lecturer in History at Harvard: "All of us have felt in the past that the other major journal in the field, Foreign Affairs, has been unbelievably pompous, sleepy, and filled with articles ghost-written by heads of many states, including this...
Free-Choice Shtik. A former assistant dean at Columbia University's engineering school, Barr arrived at Dalton with a dim view of "orthodox" progressive education's emphasis on emotional development. Bumptious and bright, by turns pompous and ingenuous, Barr implemented the trustees' decisions to make Dalton's all-girl high school coed and to more than double the size of the school, to 1,000. The expansion permitted seven kinds of science, ten languages, 20 English courses. "My shtik" Barr said, "is freedom of choice for the students whenever possible...
...regard you as an immoral man." What a stunningly pompous example of preposterous presumption ! Yet it is so very much an expression of the Harvard mind-at its worst. Your letter, like the faculty meetings that I had the misfortune to attend during my last two years, exhibits unmistakably the symptoms of Brave New Harvard's disease: the replacement of social Brahminism by moral Brahminism-a somewhat more democratic substitution, to be sure, but having about it the acrid odor of political inquisition with which I grew famiilar in Adams House after...