Word: hogwash
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...worst creative slumps in years, Broadway is enjoying one of the greatest box-office booms in history. Packing the theaters are coin-heavy, gas-rationed Manhattan escapists, droves of visiting defense workers hell-bent to spend their mill-gotten gains. The critics, bidding the waves of hogwash recede, are often in a class with Canute. In the past month most critics have trounced Frederick Lonsdale's Another Love Story, Lou Walters' Artists and Models, Gypsy Rose Lee's The Naked Genius (which even the author held her nose at), Rose Franken's Outrageous Fortune. All four...
...House Agriculture Committee the Secretary's statement was just so much hogwash. Well they knew how the Administration had failed to see the danger of labor shortages in time, had failed to act. Snorted Minnesota's dour-faced August Andresen: "There are too many desk farmers in Washington. Fellows who think they can get milk by turning a spigot. Somebody ought to tell them about farming. They haven't done a damned thing about this problem in six or eight months and it's growing more serious all the time...
Through Vag's mind flashed a million little things. It came to him that all this hogwash he'd read about your mind's acting like a movie before you kick off was straight stuff. It wasn't the state or the President or God or anything as tangible as that he was thinking of. It was just something about that ship down there. It had to be sunk. It and a hundred more like it. If it, and they, weren't destroyed, and if their men could sacrifice themselves to sink our boats, we were through. If we lost...
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...there is real beauty in the notes, you may be sure they are the product of genuine emotion. If there is not, you may be equally sure of the emotional sterility behind them. (But if you are really interested in all this, you will forget the above hogwash, and set about devising a new vocabulary for aesthetics, in which "beauty" and "emotion" and such words do not occur, but in which one can get off this plane of half-baked philosophical daydreaming and come to grips with something precise, scientific. The trouble with aesthetics is that it tries...