Word: drivelings
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...superlative and the absolute. But these extravagant claims tend to make a reader dismiss the book completely when the boasts are not fulfilled. And while the book is not the key to Shakespeare's life and works that Rowse would have us believe, it is hardly the worthless drivel that his harsher critics profess...
...doesn't often happen that a movie advertisement has much relation to the film it promotes. But in the ads for Hud, buried under mountains of drivel (The Man With The Barbed Wire Soull etc.) is the simple statement, "Paul Newman is Hud." The adwriter no doubt had reasons of his own for saying "is" rather than "as" or "in". Still, even if by accident, he said something true. Paul Newman's performance is so superb, so complete, that he doesn't merely play the role of Hud Bannon...
...line like "Go down, Kennedy, way down in Georgia la-aa-and" is arid and unmoving, and certainly these songs include a lot that is unoriginal drivel. But the same can be said of any body of folk music. After time and taste sort out the songs that integration in the U.S. is marching to, one called Bull Connor's Jail is likely to last. Written last spring by Guy Carawan, a highly regarded California folk singer arrested at a Birmingham protest meeting, it truly says...
...play, Just Wild About Harry, written in three days in 1960 and given its world premiere last week in Spoleto at Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds. The play is standard, consistent Miller all the way; that is to say, it is a show of dirty drivel...
...Belief. "Drivel," retorted Walter L. Allen, safety education chief of the Alabama Public Safety Department. "As a Southern white man and a police officer with a record of which I have no shame, I can. do and shall disagree. I for one shall not abjectly surrender." Southerners, said Allen, have "no real hate for the Negro. We merely despise the mores, actions, principles and behavior of the mass. It is our sincere belief that by accepting the unusual Negroes we open every door to the most undesirable ethnic group in the civilized world...