Word: shallow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Feathered Lizards. Just as shallow is Ardrey's use of bird territoriality to justify violent human greed. Birds are feathered lizards whose instinct-dominated brains do not resemble the brain of man; consequently, their customs have little bearing on human affairs. When Ardrey tries to draw human lessons from the property instincts and sex relationships of lions, antelopes, baboons, seals, monkeys and many other animals, he gets hopelessly mixed up. No wonder; he should not have tried. Each species has its special and widely differing customs, and seldom do they resemble the ways of social man. Perhaps the most...
...Kreuger is competent as the young professor, but severely limited by the narrowness of colloquial Hamlets, who, it seems, are not permitted the exuberant swings of mood of their renaissance ancestors. Director Kautner is a victim of the modern fallacy that complicated people are incapable of being drab and shallow, and his Hamlet--alas for poor Kreuger--is a predictably intricate Harvard Square neurotic...
...ever ascertain "clear compulsion" for either choice in a situation with the ramifications of atmospheric testing. Substantial right-wing pressure, though, may well compel Kennedy to resume tests. Such a development would be tragic, for the arguments of the politicians are as scientifically shallow as they are morally infantile. Vigilant Mr. Rockefeller has been exceedingly irresponsible...
Labor unions are frequently instrumental in spurring unity in a relatively unstable society, Lodge said. Also, since they cannot maintain loyalty exclusively by Western methods like collective bargaining when "the economic barrow of their membership is so shallow," the labor unions frequently become socially creative agencies, building self-help housing and running co-operatives...
...years the late Werner Heldt was called "the Utrillo of Berlin," a tag that enraged him all the more because it was based on the shallow observation that both he and Utrillo painted city streets. Both also drank. Yet that deprecatory comparison was about the measure of Heldt's renown at the time of his death seven years ago. This week Heldt is enjoying a sudden spurt of fame as the key figure of a new, nonabstract "Berlin School." The critical applause comes from a show in Wiesbaden of the collection of rich Machine-tool Maker Kurt Brandes...