Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daring German cross-country dash. Certainly the Yugoslav attack on northern Albania, capturing 100 men in about the time that the Nazis were taking 100,000 in Thrace and Yugoslavia was not the answer. At noon on the sixth day, German motorcycle patrols met the van guard of a pompous Italian parade (the Arezzo and Florence Divisions of regulars, a regiment of Bersaglieri, a legion of Blackshirts) which had succeeded in push ing about six miles out of Albania against little resistance except an unseasonal snow storm...
...Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street (Victor album; $2). For radio listeners to the mock-pompous announcements and the excellent hot playing of "Dr. Henry Levine and his Bare footed Dixieland Philharmonic" and "Maestro Paul Laval and his Woodwindy...
Producer Cornell has gathered a cast of veterans who act like it-Raymond Massey (Sir Colenso), Bramwell Fletcher (the painter), Clarence Derwent, Whitford Kane, Ralph Forbes, Colin Keith-Johnston. Cecil Humphreys is sidesplitting as the pompous Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonington, who explains that he finds it necessary to live in the style to which his rich patients are accustomed...
...hour sustaining show once a month. "I don't want to do the sort of thing The Free Company (TIME, Feb. 24) is doing," he pontificates. "No flare of drums and 'now we take you to Valley Forge'. . . . We don't need pompous democracy. I'm no junior Laval...
...wrong with it. When an organist draws on the full resources of his instrument, as have Messrs. Capra & Riskin in invoking almost every great emotional appeal from the Nativity to The Star Spangled Banner, the largest possible music had better come out. Anything else may topple artistically from sheer pompous top-heaviness. When Capra-Riskin open up the cinema organ in Meet John Doe, what comes out is not solid but uncertain musical structure (in the middle of the picture they even fall back on coy effects with a small dog), not so much Bachian power as Lisztian super-schmalz...