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...those emotions have faded—and that development is as reasonable as it was inevitable. There is no way that a society can function effectively while its members sleepwalk through life, terrified about their prospects for survival and, in any case, worrying that much of their existence is shallow and vacuous. Harvard students have, of course, protested—or supported—the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and, even those who are less politically active have not (and could not have) shut themselves off entirely from following the so-called “War on Terrorism...
...mail describes the drugs as “colorless and odorless” and encourages students who experience “nausea and vomiting, unconsciousness, dizziness, shallow or irregular breathing or heartbeat, decreased blood pressure, drowsiness, visual disturbances, confusion, gastrointestinal disturbances and/or urinary retention” to seek medical attention immediately...
...clients have space issues. “They always have way too much stuff. They have their “skinny” set of clothes and their heavier set of clothes.” Also, they are struggling with Cambridge housing and its “tiny, shallow closets...
...just had to acknowledge that it would at times wear on the reader,” he says. “It has the advantage of being true, and it would clear away those shallow discomforts...
There has always been something desperately seductive about the U.S., something that European elites have regarded as a menace and a threat. To them, the U.S. was shallow, vulgar, uncultured, crass, inauthentic, materialistic, naive, venal and degenerate. At the same time, however, they could not deny that it was somehow irresistible and dangerously attractive—particularly to millions of Europe’s masses, who voted with their feet in hopes of attaining something in America that eluded them at home...