Word: copouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...features triviality, gossip, scandal. It always will. Charles Anderson Dana of the New York Sun-like Hearst and Pulitzer quite a phrasemaker and an exemplar of the era-declared that the Sun could not be blamed for reporting what God had permitted to happen. That was only partly a copout. While the press should not pander to base or grisly appetites, or merely "give the people what they want," neither should it be expected to change human nature (if that concept is still admissible). America's mainstream publications today, for all their faults, are far more broad-gauged, responsible...
Rivlin argues that spending cannot be substantially brought down until Congress is willing to tackle the legislated pensions, subsidies and other transfer payments to retired civil servants, veterans, farmers and other politically vindictive constituencies. To call these payments "uncontrollables" is, she contends, a copout. Congress enacted them, and Congress can change them...
Myron Golden, also an MPA disagreed. He said the meeting did not establish a position and was a "bureaucratic copout." He added that any proposal the students make will go through a series of compromises, and become "so watered down that it won't be worth my time...
Read treats this new wrinkle in an otherwise familiar story as fact-until, in a final section oddly called "Corroboration," he suggests that the Nazi connection was another tickle, a hoax designed to hook the publisher. Read then exits rather sheepishly with the classic copout, "Let each reader decide upon its veracity for himself." In an era of recycled journalism and package publishers who may be soon calling books "entertainment systems," everybody aboard The Train Robbers appears to have it both ways. Even the reader, who can spook himself with the thought that the SS rides again or ignore this...
Landscape as Cop-Out. These paintings, central to the so-called West Coast look, were the figurative works of a man who had once been an abstract painter and would become one again; purist criticism gave them short shrift. Landscape was regarded as the abstractionist's copout. Diebenkorn's work was described as abstract expressionism (the New York style par excellence) diluted for West Coast palates. If not unserious, at least it was not major. "It was always a putdown for me in the '50s," recalls Diebenkorn, 55, a big, reticent man with a no-nonsense bearing...