Word: pompousity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Daisies and wife to critic Walter Kerr, the comedy made a star of Barbara Bel Geddes in the fifties. Admittedly a bit slow in spots, Mary contains many sharp lines: "That's what I hate about intellectuals--they're all so dumb!" is a good one to throw at pompous TA's. At the Actors Workshop Theater; call 266-6840 for the usual info. and ask about the student rate...
...Maffeo Ducoli said: "People are crying in the streets and in the shops as if someone in their family had died." He was a teacher with a remarkable gift for explaining things through unexpected metaphors, an asker of sharp questions, a man who could defend conservative values without seeming pompous or rigid to the young...
Harvard's Dean Rosovsky's idea of what makes a well-educated person will produce pompous graduates who know a little about everything and a lot about nothing. Their degrees will be mere status symbols...
While Feydeau whisks his characters about with a wand of madness, he also displays surgical detachment in dissecting the foibles of the French middle class. The men tend to be pompous hypocrites. The women seek out opportunities for sexual revenge but are coy about entering the beds they have promised to grace. Not exclusively French...
Personally, Burns is by turns aloof and avuncular, pompous and friendly. Few Washington officials stayed further away from the press, or at the same time had more written about them. Enveloped in clouds of pipe smoke, he was equally adept at describing the Federal Reserve's operations in maddeningly vague language to congressional committees and relishing a joke in private with a friend. He had an unexpected love of partygoing, yet on one Halloween in 1971, when a Virginia host asked guests to arrive in costume. Burns attended in his usual dark business suit. Says Charls Walker, then Under...