Word: shallow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Your otherwise enlightening article lost its value in charging that there is an "American heritage of Catholic anti-intellectualism." Perhaps the problem is one of semantics, and your shallow, finite definition of intellectualism. Truth remains such, ad infinitum...
...million homes, TV Guide is a healthy-organism fattening along with its host, a reference work as handy as the phone book. Other magazines may go in the magazine rack, but the Guide stays on top of the TV set, a viewer's indispensable chart through shallow channels...
...inboard-outboard (80 h.p.) engine, a style that is increasing in popularity. This design allows for use of the more efficient and con venient in-line inboard engine, and at the same time provides the advantage of an outboard drive, i.e., allowing the propeller to be raised for shallow channels and for beaching. Price...
...Phenix has denounced the one great fundamental of education as the snake that has led us all to doom. Somehow he fails to see that self-realization, far from being morally shallow and a goal that produces "a democracy of desire," is the one most noble and difficult task of our lives. To Phenix, self-fulfillment is equated with selfish ambition, acquisition and success. It is obvious that he has distorted the meaning of fulfillment...
...premise that happy men create a healthy society, they teach and beseech children to use their abilities. By thus stressing self-realization, the schools in theory promote "the greatest good to the greatest number." It is Philosopher Phenix's jarring argument that all this is morally shallow-that U.S. schools in fact promote selfishness...