Word: pompousity
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...Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's survey of U.S. economic and social problems, opened with an impressive cast -Singer Gladys Swarthout, General Motors' Charles F. Kettering, Judge Samuel Leibowitz, Baseball's Jackie Robinson, ex-Budapest-Prisoner Robert Vogeler-none of whom seemed at ease with a pompous script...
...very private beach, old families not merely rich but entirely accustomed to it-this is the special world about which Ethan Ayer writes. His book is a portfolio of vignettes: the well-bred old snobs, the new, vulgar rich, the wealthy young weaklings and, behind all these, the pompous and romantic servants...
...golden basso cantante (a lyric bass rather than a growler) with a natural authority onstage, Siepi won himself an opening-night ovation as the dignified king in Don Carlo. Then, a month later, he shed the dignity like a shirt, became an inspired and pompous fool as Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville. He turned next to Mephistopheles in Faust, sang and acted with his customary conviction...
What did he call himself? Williams wasn't sure. "I don't know," he said. "Wyndham Lewis called me an existentialist, but I don't know what that means . . . I suppose I'm a human being-but that sounds pompous, doesn...
...essence of this production is its lightness and airiness but it would be even more so if some members of the cast were more confident. Milton Schlein, as the pompous Magistrate, enjoys the part, and so does buxom Martha Fontek, as Lampito. Virginia Carroll as Lysistrata occasionally forgets in the first act that comedy demands a fast and forceful delivery, but she plays with increased confidence in the second...