Word: pabulum
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...packed him off to the Aran Islands, conceivably the most significant trip in modern dramatic literature, for out of it came Riders to the Sea and The Playboy of the Western World. Again, if Yeats had not spoon-fed Dublin's infant Abbey Theater with the heady ethnic pabulum of Cathleen ni Houlihan, there would have been neither stage nor actors for the memorable tragi-comedies of Sean O'Casey. And above all, there was the matchless mature poetry of Yeats himself, not popular balladry as he had hoped, not mythic, mysterious and magical as he had planned...
...guidance people will guide our kids back to the academics, and if the counselors will counsel the administrators to put most of the nonacademic pabulum back in the extracurricular cupboard, the pursuit of happiness will take care of itself. Bruises to the ego by way of low marks, poor report cards, etc., prepare our youngsters for real-life bumps and bruises, but a "demanned" man at 30 is a tragic thing to behold...
...what is our hope? In the famine and thirst! The danger ... is that the hunger and the thirst will be stilled by the frothy pabulum of the 'Christian ethic,' and that the people will be full and yet not fed. But there are signs . . . that the people no longer 'love to have it so.' In the gnawing hunger and the burning thirst is our only hope: 'Not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord...
...told Massachusetts Institute of Technology students that the U.S. could not meet the threat of dictatorship "if we turn this country into a wishy-washy imitation of totalitarianism, where every man's hand is out for pabulum, and virile creativeness has given place to the patronizing favor of swollen bureaucracy...
Since they had not learned how to read intelligently, "they tended to look to their professors to tell them not merely what books to read but sometimes what chapters and what pages; on being told, the more serious among them would throw themselves upon the recommended pabulum and would try to absorb it in a very frenzied fashion. They read rapidly, desperately and far too much. And because they tended to believe that all facts (and only facts) were important, and, what is more, equally important, the result was often a fearful intellectual congestion from which many of them will...