Word: shallow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...true? Suddenly the earth is no longer steady. Their son, whom she had raised to be a left-wing intellectual, quits work on his Ph.D. thesis and, to please his shallow wife, takes a profitable sinecure in the Ministry of Culture. (The choice is amusing; Leftist de Beauvoir is taking a poke at De Gaulle's "house" intellectual, Minister of Culture Andre Malraux.) Then reviews appear of her latest book, a work intended to offer fresh approaches to literary criticism. "Wearisome repetition," they say, or at best, "an interesting restatement." The reviewers are correct, she realizes, and it seems...
...conversation turned out badly. For one thing, Hef's cue-card questions ("Max, what about the sexual revolution Jack and Yvonne just illustrated for us . . . ? You've been calling for it for years. How do you like the way it's developing?") were shallow and awkward and Max was fairly addled. No wonder. Max may be 66, but he sat there looking for all the world like a man who is being teased to death, directly between a delicious Negro model in a low-cut dress and an extraordinarily endowed Playmate. During a break, Lerner was asked...
While the confrontation which emerges is basically one between the individual and his sensibility, it is simultaneously the educational meeting of cultures which Thomas Hoving had hoped for. Many of the photos are mere snapshots, others are from UPI. Most of both these groups are understandably shallow. As a series of photographs--as they are presented in the infamous exhibition catalogue--they do not provide the kind of answers a confused public is seeking. However, with the addition of audio-visual techniques, the photos are charged with the appropriate atmosphere and emotion...
...biggest and most theatrical of all the Leaf works is Street Dreams: The Ascension of the Pig Lady, a grouping of nine characters set in a shallow stage framed by a proscenium arch. Cast as a waitress with porcine pink cheeks and a snoutlike nose, the pig lady is about to be plucked up to heaven by a man and woman sprawling across the top of the arch. Explains Miss Leaf: "If there was going to be another Messiah, it would appear in someone who would never expect it, like a waitress, and she would turn into...
...country of pioneers, and as a country of immigrants driven by the pioneering spirit it parallels America in its youth. Eisenstadt recognizes this parallel and still finds a little of the pioneering spirit in contemporary American life: "There is still a strong missionary element in America, sometimes extremely shallow, but sometimes not. It is part of the ethos...