Word: pompousness
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...most recent in a line of distinguished, if somewhat pompous, forebears. For seven straight years, the CRIMSON ground out a yearly State of the Union message on Academic Freedom after sweeping its nets across the country in search of Injustice in colleges both great and small...
Little noticed in the frenetic rejoicing-put on daily so that Algerians would not lose heart while Paris hesitated-was a tall, slim man with the cold, blue-grey eyes of Flanders. Yet of all the gaudy generals and pompous politicians who harangued the Algiers mob, none had so good a claim to speak for the insurrection as 39-year-old Léon Delbecque. Despite his modest title-vice president of the Committee of Public Safety-it was Delbecque who had provided the organizational brains of the Algiers revolt...
...that "Method" Director Konstantin Stanislavsky helped to found 60 years ago, gave their Chekhov a faithfully reproduced period atmosphere. But their exuberant performance carefully nurtured the most hopeful stems in his grim orchard, and pruned out the darker growths in his vision of social decay. Trofimov, for example, a pompous dreamer in most Western versions, becomes more the fiercely earnest youth, obviously the bright hope of a Soviet future. And Gayev and Madame Ranevskaya, usually played as cultivated bumblers, appear as sober, ordinary people overtaken by cold reality...
...L.H.D.S. people do much toward brightening the mediocrity. (The costumes by Peggy Decker and Judith Kuznets are especially sumptuous and picturesque.) In the leading role, William Graham makes a dignified and interesting figure out of Gogol's pompous cold. Karen Christiani as the object of his apprehensions is rather more wooden than the role requires, but ingenuous and pretty. Many of Alison Keith's lines ring hollow, but her matchmaker is a lively old rip, and she's funny, so what the hell. John Wolfson is occasionally funny as the friend who actually makes the match, but familiarity lessens...
...That'll Be a Snap." The thrill murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks looms over the whole book, but its only account is left to Mystery Master Erie Stanley Gardner, who provides the book's pompous introduction. Leopold begins his story hours after the deed, and this section is the most fascinating in the book. A few days after the murder, Leopold went out with his girl, and she read him Lamartine. There are other tantalizing and incongruous glimpses of Leopold's cozy Chicago background. His family called him "Babe"; his aunt was "Birdie"; Richard Loeb...