Word: drivel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more allusions to history, literature, or poetry than do Congress'. Margaret Thatcher's Spartan approach to national economics may have failed dismally, but at least she can intelligently argue her points and explain her intent. Ask America's leader to account for Reaganomics, and you'll get the usual drivel about free trade, unleashed American industry, and the sanctity of the unencumbered market...
Marlowe's Faustus, fed up with the drivel in books on subjects he studies, finds boundless courage to name his sin, and to abandon himself...
...years' worth of anything has every right to be, a bit of a hodge podge. There are some prematurely-greying early works of some elegance, rather reminiscent of early Philip Larkin or John Wain ("Belgian Winter," "Retrospect"); there is some doggerel ("Fair Shares for All"); there is some sophomoric drivel ("Toys," "Report"); there are fine things ("Science Fiction," "A Song of Experience"--the latter with witty, well-crafted verses like "He tried all colours, white and black, and coffee/Though quite a few were chary, more were bold/Some took it like the Host, some like a toffee/The two or three...
...Chile? In your very own Watts? Indeed, what would they have done without me? The massacre of the Indians--and this was before my time--was necessary for the survival and greatness of your nation. But as I have said, when people try to approach these questions with drivel about aesthetics and humanitarianism and so on, really, only one answer is possible: when the destiny and existence of a people are at stake, all obligation toward beauty ceases...
According to a survey by Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, Inc., a Manhattan ad agency, just about every sport except tiddlywinks has a shot at a fall spot. Two pilots center on football, one each on baseball and boxing. NBC even has one called Drivel-make that Dribble-to-basketball fans. (CBS, of course, is already jumping for the hoops with The White Shadow.) Eight pilots are based on movies. Among them: Breaking Away, Foul Play, The Goodbye Girl, Between the Lines and Freebie and the Bean. The flick series include Semi-Tough, The Main Event (also in the sport grouping...