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Veteran Edward Schmookler is a properly pompous Sir Joseph Porter. Strong in both voice and acting talent, he gets out the patter-song words clearly enunciated. Renshaw's solo to the moon in the second act is weak, but he amends it with a splendidly mincing portrayal of the "lower-middle class" Captain. Renshaw, Schmookler, and Miss Schechtman share the evening show-stopper, "Never mind the why and wherefore," which could have at least three encores...
What is left when the scenery stops falling? Well, the book can be seen to be an enormous, lavender metaphor: Leonard is soul, Victor is body, opposed in unnatural self-division. The most pompous piffler since Colin Wilson takes 376 pages to plumb this irrelevancy to its wuthering depths. One vote for Mailer...
...here that the twists take place--these stock characters have taken on new characteristics. Control is no ruthlessly efficient genius, but a pompous, vain bureaucrat who "always likes to be in on a good thing." Lemas has his bureaucratic side too, and he too is proud, often petty, knowing that he is working for a ruthless machine, but unwilling to stop...
...Council improved some of the service projects, but on the whole, it did not make use of its inheritance. At times it seemed determined to destroy it. For the first few months of its existence it devoted nearly all its attention to internal house-keeping matters and to long, pompous debates on the "role of the HCUA." The only major issue it treated was the question of continued membership in the National Student Association. Late in the Spring the Council debated the constitution of the Association of African and Afro-American students, but contented itself merely with voting...
...take Hum 1. Highlights in the History of Man--all those books you really should read--glances at great thoughts--a page or two of Plato--and all those venerable professors filling through benevolently, like a bunch of pompous angels. It's just too much! The White Man's Burden is as immoral idea! History is not a row of statues...