Word: bluff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student protestors before they ordered the school closed. It was almost two days before Administration officials sat down with students to discuss their demands. Several times University officials threatened to obtain a court injunction which would have brought Federal Marshals on the campus. The students sensed the bluff and only after student leaders made it clear that they would remain in the Administration building--injunction or no--until their demands were met did the Administration decide to talk rather than coerce...
Most people think of Buffalo, when they think of it at all, as a sooty industrial port on a blustery bluff overlooking Lake Erie. They ought to try shuffling off to Buffalo some time...
...Viet Nam is seditious poshlost. Belonging to a very select club (which sports one Jewish name, that of the treasurer) is genteel poshlost. Hack reviews are frequently poshlost, that is simple, but it also lurks in certain highbrow essays. Poshlost calls Mr. Blank a great poet, and Mr. Bluff a great novelist. One of poshlost's favorite breeding places has always been the Art Exhibition; there it is produced by so-called sculptors working with the tools of wreckers, building crankshaft cretins of stainless steel, zen stereos, polystyrene stinkbirds, objects trouves in latrines, cannon balls, canned balls. There we admire...
...restive and stalled in its military mission to bring the beauteous and adulterous Helen back from Troy. An oracle has told King Agamemnon that if he sacrifices the life of his daughter Iphigenia the wind will rise and Greek arms will ravage Troy. Agamemnon, played with a mixture of bluff aplomb and sad perplexity by Mitchell Ryan, is a politician's politician who rules more by public opinion than private conscience. He fears the mob and decides to do the oracle's bidding...
Dean Rusk, for example, made no effort to restrain his anger in an unprecedented 55-minute news conference that lashed out at the President's crit ics. "If any who would be our adversary," warned the Secretary of State, "should suppose that our treaties are a bluff, or will be abandoned if the going gets tough, the result could be catastrophe for all mankind." Bluntly disagreeing with doubters, Rusk said that abandoning Saigon would put the U.S. in "mortal danger...