Word: banality
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...complain that you don't divide along political lines, Mr. Huntington, but why don't you ever try moral lines. (Isn't it incredible that mentioning morality should instantly consign one to the realms of the banal?) Political lines. So it looks as if old Henry, fresh from the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Asians fighting for their right to self-determination, will come back here to bask in the glow of adoring undergraduates and (mostly) graduate students. What kind of people are these? What kind of person am I that I talk civilly to them...
...owlish little man minces few words. To Isidor Feinstein Stone, Richard Nixon is a "banal and shallow man," and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird "Washington's biggest liar since John Foster Dulles." As for John Mitchell: "Nothing is more dangerous than weak men who think they are tough guys...
...experience left many of the correspondents shaken and disturbed by what they had seen. Strangely - or perhaps not so strangely - they found themselves identifying with the prisoners rather than with the custodians. "If a man should need to have that banal word freedom redefined," said San Francisco Bureau Chief Jesse Birnbaum, "let him spend an hour behind the walls of a prison like Soledad or San Quentin. New have his definition the moment he walks out." Entering New Orleans' of Paris Prison reminded Chicago Correspondent Sam Iker of being and into an ancient submarine: "A combination of heat...
...your error and theirs, you rebuke me for advocating the only effective alternative. Is that gracious, let alone kind? Better. I would think, that you should wonder if you and your advisers, in now urging jawboning, other forms of incantation, an undefined evasion called an incomes policy and other banal gestures aren't still deep in wishful thought...
...argued that Song is aimed at the kids. If so, they will quail pitifully when Grieg the reluctant piano teacher whacks a slow pupil across the, knuckles à la Seventh Veil. Anyway, today's Sesame Street-schooled youngsters are much too sophisticated to be beguiled by so banal and outmoded a story line. ∎Mark Goodman