Word: shallowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ALONG the marshy banks of Lake Scutari on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, red-kerchiefed shepherdesses tend their flocks, and on the lake, fishermen in shallow wooden canoes spear fish with steel-tipped lances. Across the lake it is possible to see the outlines of the Albanian city of Scutari (pop. 29,000). That is just about the only view an outsider can get of Albania today, but from the stories that drift across the frontier, it is possible to piece together a more accurate picture. Albania is the only satellite state which is not joined geographically to the Soviet family...
...uncommon candor: "Basically, the Broadway theater is not an art, but an unsuccessful form of high-pressure huckstering ... It is not developing playwrights, actors or directors. It is doing the best it can to commit suicide." And on Broadway first-nighters: "They bring nothing into the theater except shallow, distracted minds and tired emotions . . . they have nothing to give. They are the unburied dead, brushed, combed, richly dressed, and expensively embalmed...
...nation, and our spirited defense of these, rather than among a variety of tired mysticisms whose influence has retreated from astronomy, geology, anthropology, medicine, psychiatry, and morals as individual knowledge has advanced in these fields. The choice for us here at Harvard is not to pessimistically decide which shallow code we shall adopt, but rather to work and think as individuals within no supposedly supernaturally imposed limits...
...apparently unconcerned about customers. The crowds drift past, slowly, pausing to talk and exclaim and now & then to ask a price. Their money, peeled with deliberation from well-thumbed rolls, or dredged from purses hauled from women's skirt bands, goes mostly to the shopkeepers behind the great shallow straw baskets of grain...
...continental U.S. A friend in another private plane flew alongside just to keep an eye on him. Hodgkin's tiny plane toiled upward. About 400 ft. from the summit Hodgkin cut the gun, headed downhill into the shrieking updraft and settled in to a neat landing on a shallow slope. "It was easy," he said later. "But when I tried to start the engine, it wouldn't catch. Was I embarrassed...