Word: pompousness
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...British Broadcasting Corp. (among the recognizable faces: Press Lords Beaverbrook, Rothermere, Camrose and the Archbishop of Canterbury). "The BBC," said Muggeridge with characteristic irreverence, "is a heaven-sent Punch target because it is one of those bloody things that takes itself seriously, believes it has a mission, and is pompous about it. All things Punch is interested in puncturing...
...whoever happens to be running Russia might meet to settle some of the outstanding issues of the cold war. That was before Clement Attlee made a criticism of the U.S. Constitution which, for all its academic substantiation, was about as politic as Adlai Stevenson suggesting the Coronation is a pompous farce. And it was before Senator McCarthy disgusted everyone by applying to Attlee the same kind of smearing brush he has used on American nationals. But Churchill's original plan is too important to let these unfortunate reactions cancel its consideration...
...Rome, pompous Italian Tenor Beniamino Gigli, 63, who left the Metropolitan Opera Company and the U.S. in high dudgeon in 1939 after making cooing sounds about progress under Mussolini's Fascists, announced his interest in the current political score. He will be a candidate for a seat in the new Chamber of Deputies on Alcide de Gasperi's Christian Democratic ticket in the June elections...
...particularly moving account of a Parisian cemetary, powerful in its understatement. For the former locals, Robert Bly has contributed two poems, and Train, a "Paris Commentary." The poems are enjoyable stimulants, but Train seems overwhelmed by the task of portraying the new expatriates. At any rate, his prose seems pompous and even at times mucky, a far cry from his Lampoon days and a bit too bad, since his commentary contains some acute observations...
Perry Miller, professor of American Literature, last night applauded writers of the 1920's for trying to destroy the "pompous formalities" of American life which had been causing intellectual stagnation...