Word: drivelings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Betty Ford's crude, unwarranted remarks about Nancy Reagan typify the mindless, permissive drivel we have come to expect from that dancer turned counterculture apologist and defender of public immorality...
...night live action. "Edited coverage," network officials call that abbreviated schedule, and at the last Democratic convention it paid off well. While CBS and NBC were carrying the usual speeches, floor demonstrations and mid-aisle interviews, ABC won half again as many viewers as either competitor by showing such drivel as The Mod Squad, The Super and Corner Bar. Despite that lead, ABC trailed the other networks in ratings during the late-evening hours, when all three focused on the convention: NBC won 8.2% of TV households...
...offering answers and observations, Establishment journalists and editorialists point out that for America to survive for another one hundred years, hunger must be alleviated, the economy bettered, the environment cleaned, cooperation among nations increased, equal treatment for men, women, and children observed, and on and on with more drivel masquerading as true solutions...
...front of a television set for up to six hours a day and be insulted. "Counterfeit, stylized brutality that passes for entertainment," he says of the current TV season, adding that the networks' offerings seem to be "devoid of innovation, creativity or diversification," freighted with "drivel," "sanitized doggerel" and "phony, rotten garbage...
...experiences with the poor are face to face, not some drivel dreamed up by a professor who wouldn't be able to cope for one day with the real thing. I do not believe the solution is spending more money on these vast programs which help only those administering the program...