Word: pompousity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., then 37 and a Senator from Massachusetts: "He is rather pompous for his age and decidedly interested first and foremost in his own career...
...Will and Idea, Bishop Berkeley's assertion that existence is dependent upon individual perception; Hume's denial of the existence of absolute space. For Borges' admirers, the delicious point is simply that he takes reality with a grain of salt. Great events, vast trends, the pompous certainties implied by the French phrase grands mots -all these are not for Borges. History, that troubling angular presence that the middle-aged invoke to prove to the young that nothing ever really changes or can be changed, may not exist at all. In a typically brief but suggestive essay, significantly...