Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some checkers sharks have turned to writing books about the game. Latest guide is The Modern Encyclopedia of Checkers ($5), compiled and published by pompous, publicity-loving, 36-year-old William F. Ryan, a barnstorming champion who advertises himself as the game's No. 1 mastermind...
Junior Achievement's somewhat pompous title matches the humorless tone of its national house organ, Achievement (mostly written by J.A.'s elder statesmen), which sags from too much uplift about working hard to succeed. But J.A.'s kids have always been anything but ponderous. Founded 24 years ago by Horace Augustus Moses (head of Strathmore Paper Co.) to teach business methods to adolescents before they went to work, J.A. has done just that for more than 75,000 youngsters. The Moses formula still prevails: up to 15 boys, girls or both, backed by their families or local...
...instruments, yet they have been presented, as is also the case with the Corelli Suite for Strings, with entire symphony or chestra string sections. It is true that the music had been transcribed. What that nasty word seems to have consisted of is a rewriting to fit larger, more pompous groups of instruments. Leopold Stokowski seems really to enjoy the music of Bach, and has done quite a bit in calling attention to it. Yet, he, without malice aforethought, has done more than his rightful share in deforming the music to fit the large symphony orchestras to which...
...eight years Ontario's Premier had been Mackenzie King's flamboyant enemy, Mitchell ("Mitch") Hepburn. Last October Mitch resigned, named pompous Gordon Conant (known to Toronto newsmen as "God") to succeed him. Conant thought until last week that he would be the new Premier. When Liberals, including Hepburn, ignored him at the Party convention and deserted him, Conant went off to a hospital to rest. Mitch himself stayed in political retirement on his onion farm...
Kootz, 44 and a Virginia-born lawyer, is a testy critic who knows what he does not like as well as what he does. Sometimes he slips into the morass of pompous nonsense that is a feature of the modern critical landscape (Picasso "frees us from materiality-our bondage to nature-and provides us with an ultimate reality"). But more often than many modern art critics Kootz writes clearly-and he has strong opinions to offer on the whole field of contemporary painting...