Word: drivel
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...flatly for the President's plan to delegate postwar power to use U.S. armed forces without recourse to Congress. The Times's domestic arguments for Term IV Moses called "contradictory and unconvincing." The international argument, on which the Times based its qualified Roosevelt endorsement, he dismissed as "drivel . . . claptrap of the cheapest sort...
...article concerning one surrealist Dali, of your Dec. 28 issue, has spoiled the entire volume. . . . My first impulse was to rip the offending drivel from your pages...
...deserving of much of his fame. It is his lack of self-criticism that really spoils his songs. Even Berlin's most devout followers can't deny that his tunes get repetitions. By itself the score of "Holiday Inn" is certainly above the average run of Tin Pan Alley drivel. But when you have already heard his output for the past twenty years--and who hasn't?--the score seems pale and derivative...
...heard the German short wave boasting of the city's destruction. Drivel...
...pacifist prior to World War I, a paid propagandist for the Empire during it, and the author of the "Victory Ball" which painted the uselessness of it all for the post-war world, Noyes has previously written rhymed rhetoric during his pacific periods and rhymed drivel in his belligerent moods. In World War II the intellectual chameleon has again changed color--the only difference is that this time the drivel doesn't rhyme...