Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bridal Canopy is a frame story, and the tales that Agnon tells along Reb Yudel's digressive way fill the landscape with a teeming humanity. Like Yudel himself, the characters appeal to readers of any faith: the pompous petty official totally unstrung by the disappearance of his cat; the husband whose love for his sterile wife crumbles at last before the siege of his kin; the cantor whose heavenly voice dissolves the synagogue in tears-and who gets blind drunk on a holy...
...tall, fair, baby-faced lad whose pronouncements sometimes lean toward the studied and pompous, Buswell entered Harvard because he believes that it is the duty of the performer to "seek an expression peculiar to his generation, and college is one way of discovering what my generation is all about."* As a result, while most young musicians today approach the classics on bended knee, vowing technically precise, note-for-note fidelity, Buswell views his role as that of a "performer in the creative sense, equally creative as the composer...
...contemporary idiom--so did Juvenal. Speaking of the ambitious man: "Your long list/ of honors breaks your neck." Of the emperor Tiberius: "Would you be/Tiberius' right hand, while he sits and suns/ himself at Capri, fed by eastern fags?" Of Cicero: "Yes, all in all, I like such pompous verse/ more than you force, immortal fifth Phillipic!" The passage on Hannibal moves exceptionally well, and is an obvious illustration of the epic note that reverberates hollowly through Juvenal's revulsion...
Maybe it is pompous to say that anything less than a national intercollegiate championship represents failure--or at least decay--of squash at Harvard. But after winning five national championships in a row, the squash team bears the burden of a remarkable tradition...
Harvard evokes a mixed reaction from the Wellesley girls. The questionnaire drew such descriptions as "stuffy phonies, pompous, self-centered, neurotic, and holier-than-thou," although a good three-quarters of the girls prefer dating boys from Harvard than any other school. Despite these unkindnesses, Wellesley girls did have some more respectful things to say about Harvard: "More intelligent, less standard preppy, more urban, individualistic, sophisticated, more confidence...