Word: driveling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people and weekly newsmagazines keep up this drivel about "national purpose," they may soon have to openly recognize what America really is: not a nation with something resembling a cohesive national philosophy, cultural depth, and direction, but simply a place where one comes to exploit economic opportunities, with about as much "national purpose" as a stock exchange. What America stands for is making money, and as the society approaches affluence its members are left to stew in their own ennui...
Manolete was a significant man. And that is why one can sit through a hundred minutes of drivel movie to see fifteen of Manolete. The Death of Manolete is another Spanish Horatio Alger story. The only road to fame and wealth open to a poor Spanish boy as everyone knows by now is the bullring. The whole story, from dodging calves with a wooden sword to the inevitable fatal goring is told through old photographs of varying tones and textures, accompanied by a vaguely familiar soundtrack of bullfight music and roaring crowds...
...More and more young people with good minds simply cannot take the drivel poured out by schools of education...
AGRICULTURE: "Some political orators-no doubt overly excited by the din of a campaign-actually have been saying that I am 'against' the little farmer-that I consider the farmer expendable-that I think the family farm is obsolete. What kind of drivel is this...
Once scorned among Catholics themselves as "dreary diocesan drivel," the U.S. Catholic press has grown in variety, liveliness and readability. Many Catholic papers draw enough advertising to turn a steady profit; where they do not, the church pays their deficits. The press still suffers widely from what Bishop Dwyer called "a good deal of pious incompetence." But the intellectual weeklies-the liberal lay Commonweal and the Jesuit-edited America, etc.-come up to any secular standard; the layman-edited monthly Jubilee is a tasteful slick picture magazine, and an infusion of trained lay journalists has given many of the diocesan...