Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Similarly, Myra Rubin gives us only the madness of the Duchess; none of the tragic side of this eccentric character emerges. Lord Hector, the Duchess' companion, is meant to be a stuffed turkey and Atilla Dolanyi is a fine, pompous turkey indeed...
...cannot be fairly said that Updike has written a pompous book. His merging of myth and biography is light and pleasing, as full of humor and vitality as the man who inspired...
Interestingly enough, Porter's "Kathy's Date," like his November "The Devil Will Spank" and "Grandfather," ends in a cemetery. Lest anyone suspect a graveyard school at South Street, Michael Hancher explains in a pompous and unnecessary editorial on "Advocate Policy" that there is no Advocate policy, that it prints anything that "achieves," and that the oversupply of cometeries and childhood recollections is purely accidental. "If the Advocate is not always a constant joy to read from cover to cover," he apologizes, "it is because writers and editors learn from mistakes." This issue should provide more than a modicum...
...scrap was with some Ohio American Legion posts that adopted a resolution censuring him for agreeing to speak before the leftist Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. Calling the Legionnaires "puffed-up patriots" and "publicity-seeking professional veterans," Young answered one "Americanism chairman" directly: "I repudiate your resolution, Buster, and your pompous, self-righteous, holier-than-thou title of 'Americanism chairman.' " When Ohio Republican Congressman Gordon Sherer joined forces with the Legion, Young devastated him in one grandly irrelevant blast: "While I was on the Anzio beachhead* he was Safety Director of Cincinnati, Ohio...
...radio and television commercial brought complaints from the customers-but that was what happened two years ago when a pair of cartoon characters named Bert and Harry Piel stopped delivering their sudsy-soft sell for Piel's Beer in the New York area. From 1955 to 1960, pompous, pint-sized Bert and his self-conscious older brother Harry (with voices supplied by radio's Ray Goulding and Bob Elliott) fumbled engagingly through ads witty enough to keep chortling viewers out of the bathroom during program breaks. Last week Bert and Harry fans were chortling again. After a painful...