Word: pompousity
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...leading Shakespearean actor of this time, Maurice Evans, plays the pompous Malvolio with his usual moist, resonant subtlety of speech. He also adopts a Cockney accent that undoubtedly makes the labored humor of the part more amusing than it really is. Into the pronunciation of the single word '"Run?" he manages to crowd an enormous amount of haughty comedy...
Great is Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. But much of its scenery is hideous, most of its stagecraft pompous, hidebound, stodgy. In Europe, opera is everywhere sung in the language of the land, whereas the Met's official tongue is Anything-but-English. Next week the Metropolitan will open its season with some hurdy-Verdi in Italian (Un Ballo in Maschera), a new sponsor for its Saturday broadcasts (Texas Co.), its annual promise of more oomph. Meanwhile last week some other U. S. operas delivered the oomph...
...enable Japan's South Sea policy to be carried out fully." An oil deal which was reported last month (TIME, Oct. 28), granting Japan more than three times as much Netherlands East Indies oil as she had previously been allowed, was confirmed. The Emperor himself paused in pompous celebrations of the 2,600th anniversary of the Japanese Empire to discuss expansionist moves with Army and Navy leaders. The newspaper Yomiuri defined all this without making any mince: "The work left for Japan is to sweep away the remains of the white empire which so long has held sway...
...Pompous Senator George, on whom all clothes look formal, is a grey, humorless, urbane man. He will preside over the committee's deliberations during the grave days that lie ahead. Franklin Roosevelt will be forced to deal directly, week after week, with the man he tried to purge from the Senate in 1938. No one accuses Senator George of being vengeful; but neither is he forgetful...
...drunkard organist, whose life is like a pathetic symphony with a tragic coda. These are the common folk of "Our Town," brought to life you by a sincere and enthusiastic cast. You may find faults; there are moments when Rowland Bishop's Dr.Gibbs is just a little over pompous; there are scenes where Virginia Thoms's Emily Webb tends to excessive bashfulness. But what is important is that this young group has caught the humanism, the joy, the pathos of life and presents it all convincingly...