Word: pompousity
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...range and excellence of our programs," says he Indeed, though many have dated call it "Camp Harvard," the summer school crusaders generally take themselves quite seriously. "A truly cosmopolitan center of learning during the summer months in Cambridge" assets Pihl. This bold, declarative style sometimes verging on the pompous characterize the entire work...
Director Robert Whitehead, who produced Medea in 1947, has not fired up other key actors. Paul Sparer's Creon is more like a pompous chairman of the board than a Corinthian king, and Ryan's Jason is a callow marital climber rather than the hero who brought home the Golden Fleece. The Grecian temple designed by Ben Edwards has a brooding, darksome majesty. A pity so much of this production lacks...
Harvard colleague Parker puts it another way: "Legal academia is as pompous a sector of academia as any, full of hot air and gas. Ely has none of that...It'd be very refreshing to be at a school with him as dean," He adds. "He has certainly got the energy to build a law school like Stanford into one of the two or three best...
Reese is on the court playing herky-jerky, uninspiring squash against a freshman with a slightly pompous manner and the thoroughly aristocratic name of Julian Benello. Our hero hits one good shot, only to follow it with three despicable plays and a good deal of shuffling around the court and mumbling. Benello wins the first game...
...they never have been. It is axiomatic that journalists opinions should be strictly separated from news, a line that should be scrupulously adhered to both in regard to a newspaper's own pundits and those hired by others. This is particularly true in theater criticism, where only the most pompous critic would claim that his judgment, communicated to thousands of readers, is even marginally more newsworthy than the judgment of his neighbor, who communicates it only to her husband in the seat next to her. The logical extension of this new Crimson policy (which has never been triggered into effect...