Word: blathers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bell, he can "be saved; our culture can be humanized and human dignity restored; our education can be rescued from those who now emasculate it; the Church can become once more truth-centered, God-centered. All this can happen-but only if we raise up rebels . . . [against] the blather of the crowd. Against the latter we must be rebels, not because we hate the Common Man but because we love him deeply. This is our reasonable service, our religious duty...
John Steinbeck, now 50, has run a wobbly literary path for nearly a quarter of a century. Signposts along the way read: charming sentimentality (Tortilla Flat), left-wing melodrama (In Dubious Battle), maudlin blather (Of Mice and Men), tender innocence (The Red Pony), honest social indignation (Grapes of Wrath), meretricious sex (The Wayward Bus). His latest novel, East of Eden, comes under none of these labels, although it courts most of them for long stretches...
Weel, lasses 'n laddies, Bonnie Prince Charlie maun hae been a vurra romantical figure, but it is nae a vurra guid film. Fa' after twenty minutes o' furious ettle, the rest is nae but a lot o' blather...
...recent climes o' Scotia. The skirl o' the pipes, the fearsom' whoops o' the hairy-legged hi'landers and the proud switchin's o' their kilts bode fair to make this a noble screening o' that mirk rebellion o' 1745. But e'en were there ha' sae much blather as the remains of the movie showed, 'twould be wee wonder that the Scotsmen couldna win the war. A man mocht e'en think they wer'nae beaten at Culloden wi' clouds o' Redcoat shot 'n shell, but hae merely talked themselves to death...