Word: pompousness
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...from him. Evidently it is not only one of Poulenc's best works, getting away to a certain extent from the narrowness of Les Six and the ragtime of the twenties, but it is a thoroughly enjoyable piece of music as well. It starts out with a pompous Handelian little theme, which is quickly broken down, so my informant says, into a vein of jocosity, busy chattering strings, and short reiterated little figures, (a trick used very successfully by Strawinsky in his recent symphony), And throughout the work there is a good deal of musical wisecracking--banal tunes, whizzing themes...
...pretty young lady named Liberty Jones is very ill in the home of her Uncle Sam, an amiable but confused businessman. She is menaced by Three Shirts of Brown, Black and Red hue, who keep appearing on the balcony outside. No remedy for her has been found by four pompous doctors called Medicine, Letters, Divinity and Law. At length, however, Liberty is raised from her sickbed, loved and defended by Tom Smith, a very high-flying aviator...
...Symphony was more worth bothering about than the Mahler Symphony, although the fact that its melodies are weaker, less distinguished, and less surehanded than those of the later symphonies will probably cause its rejection. But in no way does it merit Cui's contemptuous epithets of "rough and commonplace. . . . pompous and trivial . . . neither good nor bad." It is fun to listen to, and that is more than can be said for a good deal of the stuff that is perpetrated in concert-halls today...
...almost to a man and Republicans are hopelessly split. Isolationist Senators Wheeler, Taft, Nye and Clark might filibuster; House isolationists might balk-but two men held all the cards this week: 1) prognathous, gnomish Representative Sol Bloom of New York, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; 2) austere, pompous Senator Walter George of Georgia, his opposite number in the Senate...
...event which must have given Mitsuru Toyama greatest satisfaction of all last week was the convocation of the Diet. Parliamentary forms have always been the cardinal anathema to the secret societies. Last week's convocation indicated that the forms were very nearly dead. In the pompous Diet building in Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito made a one-minute speech to the members, who were as stray and divided as sheep. They had dissolved their political parties and their lobbying machines. They had no aims, no organization, no hope. Their first and only act was to adjourn until January 20. Then...