Word: driveling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ridiculous scene, for example, Gallimard makes policy based on the faux-exotic drivel Song has been feeding him, claiming to his superior at the embassy that "once you know Orientals, you realize they're secretly attracted to our Western ways." It's hard to see Gallimard as representative Western macho man; it's hard to see him as anything other than an idiot...
More importantly, Marius' behavior, both public and private, is egregious and entirely unprofessional. He has verbally abused preceptors in the presence of colleagues and students and fired two preceptors publicly while standing in a hallway. He has publicly referred to students by name and called their writing `drivel.' He has threatened colleagues, in one instance stationing an armed undercover police officer outside a preceptor's classroom to prevent him from teaching...
...made comments to me specificallydenigrating students by name," says a currentteacher. "He said what was written was 'drivel.'He reminds me of the Kingsfield character in 'ThePaper Chase.' He doesn't respond to students...
...nation need all the unifying rituals and symbols we can find. They killed off Elvis. They forced Carson to retire. And they turned "Saturday Night Live" into repetitive, humorless drivel. Now they're trying to take Santa Claus and Christmas trees from us. It's time to fight back...
...pages away, historian Adolph Reed, Jr. criticizes the same artists for "spew[ing] garbled compounds of half-truth, distortion, Afrocentric drivel, and crackerbarrel wisdom." Amiri Baraka, in his uneven but driving essay, inveighs against Spike Lee's forthcoming film, calling it part of the "black bourgeoisie's attack on Malcolm X." Marlon Riggs later labels Baraka's approach mere "rhetoric...