Word: drivel
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Perhaps because they do not realise that economic development is one of the trickiest subjects in the world, perhaps because they know it all too well, the political leaders of this country and the candidates for their posts have spent the summer talking a good deal of drivel about poor countries, some of it inane, much of it puerile, and nearly all of it misleading. They have appealed to charity ("in India a man's average annual income is $80"), to conscience (development means new self-respect, new freedom"), and self-interest ("the outcome of the cold war depends...
...writing (13 volumes) has the untamed drive of a runaway tractor. Though much of it to a Western ear is talented but tiring rabble-rousing, in the lyrics and in the love poems speaks a genuine poet's voice-speaking more truly than any party-line drivel. "Always to shine/to shine everywhere/to the very deeps of the last days...
...would expect such drivel from the beatniks who are said to inhabit the cellars in San Francisco, but we surely are entitled to better ideas from men of this caliber...
Pollyanna. Showing an infallible instinct for what the public wants but would be better off without, Walt Disney has blended freshets of onion juice and a Niagara of drivel into a movie tearfully true to the Eleanor Porter novel. Hayley Mills is excellently horrid in the lead...
...names (Jane Wyman, Richard Egan, Adolphe Menjou. Karl Malden, Agnes Moorehead. Donald Crisp, Nancy Olson), and generally calculated its gasps and sniffles, homilies and heehaws with such shrewdness that Pollyanna emerges on the wide screen as the best live-actor movie Disney has ever made: a Niagara of drivel and a masterpiece of smarm...