Word: pompously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HAVING vindicated himself by making a statement of his own artistic humility, he attacks. He accuses the entire world of believing in its own artifices and of vesting them with pompous officialdom. Steinberg contrasts the substantiality of a painted chunk of rich brown earth and a simple tree, with the frenzied intricacy of man's nervous world, by juxtaposing the two scenes on cliffs separated by a narrow but precipitous chasm...
...belongs to Miss Tutin. In the final act, without benefit of makeup sorcery, she and Victoria edge into old age. The fatigue of existence enters her voice, slows her step, dims her eyes like a patina. It is an august portrayal of a Queen who is regal without being pompous, naive without being stupid, romantic without being sentimental...
...first real pushy prophet"; Lot was "the first Biblical voyeur"; Jezebel "was immortalized by Frankie Laine." As for the Jonah story, "the Gentiles-as is their wont from time to time-threw the Jew overboard." If Steinberg debunks God as well, it is not the real God but the "pompous image of him created by the clergy." Solemnly, Steinberg intones: "The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away. The Lord God is an Indian giver." When suffering Job calls out for God and gets no answer, he desperately yells: " 'Mike' . . . and God answered . . . How mysterious are the ways...
...educational value of the fast to those participating may be important, but the exclusionist nature of the protest effectively shuts out many others who could be sharing in that education. The black armbands and the pompous ads may unnecessarily alienate a large number of non-participant students from constructive forms of protest...
...accomplishments, Zubin Mehta may truly be regarded as one of this country's leading conductors. However, his "unabashed immodesty" and his exceedingly high opinion of himself may eventually reveal this bright young star from the East to be the mere twinkle in the eye of a pompous...