Word: pompousness
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...face of all the griping, the Army, so important in Cuban politics, is still on Grau's side. That makes for security. Most weekends Grau hops into a military plane and flies off with his family and fat, pompous Army Chief Genovevo Pérez Dámera to sun himself on the beach at beautiful Veradero...
...beaten up in bed and two men who achieve this for her wander through a section of their mutually depraved lives, the reader does not know if he has read a parody or a psychological study. If parody, it is not clearly such, and if psychological, it is pompous, muddled, and shocking just for the sake of being shocking...
Delicately balancing his fantasy with realistic psychological probing, Harold Wendell Smith shown skill and imagination equally in "The Fireman's Hat," though the ending is somewhat unsatisfying. Where Smith succeeds in avoiding obviousness and pompous language in portraying a character, Alan Friedman's "All Truth Is a Lie" partly fails. Starting with an interesting and mature idea, 'Friedman has constructed a somewhat nebulous story in which the author's manipulations are all too evident. The writing is good, but the Virginia Woolf-ish musing on Life and the nature of Time, though well-adapted to the story, is overworked...
Sweetheart had broken down the day before and the Chicoys had given up their beds to the passengers overnight. Most important and most irritated passengers were Mr. Pritchard, a corporation executive from Chicago; his wife; and their daughter, Mildred. Mr. Pritchard was neat, pompous and timid; Mrs. Pritchard sweet, sexless and tyrannical; Mildred hated them both...
Over at Sanders Theater later this term both the Veterans Theater Workshop and the Dramatic Club will make another try for postwar popular success. This time, in the absence of fig-leaf and reincarnation, critical interest will center around the quality of the production rather than the meaning of pompous and obscure authors. In Shaw's "St. Joan" and Odets' "Waiting For Lefty," local thespians have two tested and playable dramas, while the HDC's additional offering, Saroyan's "The Ping-Pong Players," can turn out to be almost anything, and probably will...